From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264563AbTLVX1P (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:27:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264575AbTLVX1O (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:27:14 -0500 Received: from mtaw6.prodigy.net ([64.164.98.56]:31167 "EHLO mtaw6.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264563AbTLVX1M (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:27:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:24:33 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Christophe Saout , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fruhwirth Clemens , Joe Thornber Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target Message-ID: <20031222232433.GT6438@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Garzik , Christophe Saout , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fruhwirth Clemens , Joe Thornber References: <1072129379.5570.73.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20031222215236.GB13103@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <3FE7794D.7000908@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FE7794D.7000908@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > would prefer to emphasize their differences. A replacement for > cryptoloop means you must support cryptoloop's on-disk format. Do you dislike the cryptoloop format? What if you wanted to take a disk that was used with dm-crypt, and copy it to a file on a larger filesystem? Would the data now be inaccessable because it's not in a format mountable by a loop driver?