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From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: jassi brar <jassi_singh_brar@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: An idea .... with code
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219848575.9776.8.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080827124734.GT26610@one.firstfloor.org>

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  As far as features are concerned, please suggest me what could be done with /dev/loop0 and not for /dev/vblk?
> 
> Serious question?  cryptoloop, offsets are the big ticket items,
> i'm sure there are more.

As far as cryptoloop goes, isnt that obsoleted anyway? is there anyone
that doesent use dm-crypt by now?

as for offsets, isnt this a logical thing to do with devicemapper
aswell?

ofcourse loop/losetup cannot just be removed, theres probably LOTS of
scripts around which are being used.

> 
> -Andi
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-27 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-24  8:53 An idea .... with code jassi brar
2008-08-25 12:22 ` Jochen Voß
2008-08-25 20:53   ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-08-26  2:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-08-26  8:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-26 10:44   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-26 11:08     ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27  7:24   ` jassi brar
2008-08-27  7:47     ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27  9:57       ` David Newall
2008-08-27 10:01         ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 12:38       ` jassi brar
2008-08-27 12:47         ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 14:49           ` Kasper Sandberg [this message]
2008-08-27 15:02             ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-28  1:24               ` jassi brar
2008-08-28  9:41               ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-08-30  2:57             ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-27  0:44 jassi brar
2008-08-27  2:27 jassi brar

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