From: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Walter Hofmann <lkml-040723143345-5954@secretlab.mine.nu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:01:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407230901.33814.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BnzGM-0005zX-00@gimli.local>
On Friday 23 July 2004 7:34 am, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> You wrote on linux.kernel:
> > Your points can be simplified to "I don't use cryptoloop, but someone
> > else might" and "we shouldn't do this in a stable kernel".
> >
> > Well, I want to hear from "someone else". If removing cryptoloop will
> > irritate five people, well, sorry. If it's 5,000 people, well maybe not.
>
> I use cryptoloop and I would be really annoyed if it disappeared in
> the stable kernel series. Besides, I read in another mail in this thread
> that dm-crypt will not work with file-based storage (I'm using
> cryptoloop on a file), and that it is new and potentially buggy.
Just to clarify this one point...
Device-Mapper (and thus dm-crypt) can only create mappings on block-devices.
However, in your situation, you could just take a two-step approach of
creating a loop device on the encrypted file (using losetup), and then using
dm-crypt on top of this loop device.
--
Kevin Corry
kevcorry@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/
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2004-07-26 10:54 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-07-26 12:45 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
2004-07-26 18:11 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-07-26 22:59 ` Fruhwirth Clemens
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2004-07-27 8:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2004-07-27 8:53 ` Matt Mackall
2004-07-27 10:10 ` Marc Ballarin
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