gbde data corruption?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Apr 29 14:01:02 PDT 2003


In message <001901c30e7c$10bbe9f0$6601a8c0 at VAIO650>, "Lucky Green" writes:
>Heiko wrote:
>-----------
>apparently updating g_bde_crypt.c from rev 1.12 to 1.13 has effects on
>the format of data or the layout of the encrypted filesystem. the stuff
>that was on that mount with the old kernel is gone now.
>-----------
>
>Just for clarification, did migrating g_bde_crypt.c from rev 1.12 to
>1.13 cause you to lose access to the data that was stored on the FS
>using 1.12? In other words, does one need to back up that data to
>another FS before upgrading GBDE to the newest version?

1.12 had some debug/testing code enabled which should not have been
enabled, all other revisions are OK.



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