[Haifux] Nested disk encryption

[Zaar Hai]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il> wrote:
> Why does a benchmark tool help me here? I don't care about performance. I'm
> more worried about revealing a bug in the kernel, and finding myself with
> junk data written to my disk. Or something like that.
Its not for perfomance, but for stress test. Leave it running in the
loop for a week and keep using your pc as usuall. If nothing crashes,
I would be pretty confident in a such setup.  And even if someone
experienced enough would give "yes" answer to you, no one gaurantees
you that next kernel update will not break it.

P.S. Nothing is sure but death and taxes :)


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> Since I have no idea about how things are organized in the kernel, I also
> have no clue on whether it's structured enough to stack one layer on another
> without anything happening.
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> For example, suppose I have 16 loop devices in my system, and created a loop
> device inside a loop device, and went on using up all 16 in a nested manner
> (loop device "babushka"). In theory, this should work. Now ladies and
> gentlemen, place your bets on if this works if I'll try this for real. (I'm
> not really going to try this, but that's the idea).
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>   Eli
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> Zaar Hai wrote:
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>> Some time ago I did what you've done, but not for some real use - just
>> for testing. I suggest you run iozone (or other io benchmark) on your
>> loopback partition and see if anything goes wrong.
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>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il> wrote:
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Zaar