From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jon+lvm@silicide.dk Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] where do i find the device mapper/LVM2 documentation? Message-ID: <20030531090833.GA2157@gw.silicide.dk> References: <20030530171732.KHXN4433.imf46bis.bellsouth.net@tiger2> <20030530172355.GD445@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030530172355.GD445@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat May 31 04:08:03 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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