Re: [linux-lvm] where do i find the device mapper/LVM2 documentation?

[jon+lvm@silicide.dk]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:23:55PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:22:32PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >  >>  On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:21:27PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> >  >>  > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:27:15PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >  >>  > 
> >  >>  > If you're interested in writing your own targets I suggest you look at
> >  >>  > a couple of the trivial targets that already exist.  Such as
> >  >>  > dm-linear.c, dm-stripe.c.
> > 
> >  >>  i am planning to write my own targets as a graduate project.
> >  >>  My idea was encryption and possibly compression as well.
> >  >>  (is anyone else doing any of these targets?)
> > 
> > An encrypting target would be nice, but does it offer any value over an encrypting loopback device?
> 
> I still don't trust the loop device enough to use it.

Why not?
What makes you think you will trust an encryption target that also
uses cryptoAPI?



JonB