On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:14 -0400, Charles Perreault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is just a little update about my JFS corruption problem.  After
> making a few tests about ecryptfs, I discovered it may not be as
> stable as the author claims it to.  I'm starting to doubt if it would
> not corrupt the underlying filesystem somehow as it hooks calls in the
> VFS.  I decided to dump it and use the more widely adopted and tested
> dm-crypt / cryptsetup.  I prefered encryption on a per-file basis as
> the cpu is a duron 750mhz, but after testing dm-crypt seems,
> surprisingly, to be fast enough.
> 
> So right now, I created a dm-crypt device on top of my mdadm raid 1
> device, and formatted the encrypted device to JFS.  Up to now, no new
> corruption arised and the system is undergoing heavy stress tests.
> It's copying via rsync/rsh about 500 gb of files, then it deletes
> everything and starts over.
> 
> I'll keep you informed if new corruption arise.  If the filesystem
> stays rock solid after two weeks of testing, I'll consider the problem
> closed and file a bug request at ecryptfs.

I'm glad I can pass the blame to ecryptfs.  :-)  I had been under the
impression that you were seeing corruption problems prior to running
ecryptfs on jfs.

Michael Halcrow has recently re-written ecryptfs to be a bit more
stable.  His changes have just been merged into the mainline kernel and
will be included in 2.6.24.   See the Sept. 15 Announcement at
http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/

> 
> Thank you all,
> 
> Charles

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


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