[dm-devel] Re: Bug#403426: kernel corrupts LUKS partition header on arm

Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com
Fri Jan 5 09:59:03 UTC 2007


* Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson at gmail.com> [2007-01-05 01:36]:
> However, I have found that I am unable to access the LUKS partition
> when the system is under heavy load and swapping.

Interesting.  Can you check whether you see the same problems with
FUSE (see #402876)?

> Martin, I wonder if this has anything to do with the virtual memory
> bug in the kernel that we experienced with apt. It could be that this
> bug existed before 2.6.19 but was much harder to trigger (e.g. see

I don't know.  I'm aware this bug has been around for a while (but
hard to trigger) but I'd b cautious to attribute every bug we see to
it.  Of course it's possible that this is the problem but somehow I
doubt it.
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Martin Michlmayr
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