From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265533AbUBPNte (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:49:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265584AbUBPNtM (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:49:12 -0500 Received: from ns.schottelius.org ([213.146.113.242]:45207 "HELO ns.schottelius.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265533AbUBPNqV (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:46:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:46:28 +0100 From: Nico Schottelius To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: smbfs / loop: problematic or not unuseable? Message-ID: <20040216134628.GL1881@schottelius.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Linux-Info: http://linux.schottelius.org/ X-Operating-System: Linux bruehe 2.6.1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! While still suffering from my more or less dead harddisk I am seeing other nice problems. I copied my blowfish encrypted partition to a samba server. Now I want to mount it and use it: pc-it-nico# mount [...] //fs2/home on /home/nico/fs2 type smbfs (rw) pc-it-nico# mount /home/nico/fs2/home-13-Feb-2004.tar.crypt /tmp/ -o loop,encryption=blowfish Password: ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument Well, let's try to use a local copy: pc-it-nico# cd ~nico/fs2 pc-it-nico# cp home-13-Feb-2004.tar.crypt .. pc-it-nico# cd .. pc-it-nico# mount -t xfs home-13-Feb-2004.tar.crypt scice -o loop,encryption=blowfish pc-it-nico# This works fine. Just wanted to report this and ask whether this is what it should be. Greetings, Nico ps: If somebody can recommened me a good manufacturer for 2.5" notebook disks, please send me a private mail. I am looking for something running longer than 2 months, having some performance, still beiing not too loud :)