Re: 2.6.0-test2: cursor started to disappear

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 07/28/03

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    Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:34:31 -0700
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>

    Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
    >
    > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:17:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
    > > >
    > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:14:08PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
    > > >
    > > > > Plus I'm seeing some silent data corruption. It may be
    > > > > swsusp or loop related
    > > >
    > > > Loop is not stable at all. Unsuitable for daily use.
    > >
    > > That's the first I've heard about it. Do you have some details on this? A
    > > test case perhaps?
    >
    > Yes, there are many reports, and it is easy to confirm.
    >
    > By some coincidence just a moment ago we saw the announcement of
    > Bugzilla bug 1000:
    >
    > [Bug 1000] New: file corruption using cryptoloop on ext2/ext3

    That's cryptoloop. I thought you were referring to vanilla loop.

    Are you saying that the problems are only with cryptoloop, or does normal
    old loop have some bug?

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