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* loop driver, device-mapper and crypto
@ 2003-12-22 21:42 Christophe Saout
  2003-12-22 21:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add dm-daemon Christophe Saout
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Christophe Saout @ 2003-12-22 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-kernel, Fruhwirth Clemens, Joe Thornber

Hello Andrew,

again I've read that there are problems with the loop driver in the
kernel with block device backing.

In 2.6 we have a device-mapper which does such things in a much more
generic way. I've already talked to a bunch of people working on loop
and cryptoloop (also with Clemens Fruhwirth, the cryptoloop maintainer)
and they all agreed that device-mapper is probably the most correct way
to go, and would be happier if the loop driver was used for files only.

I've written a device-mapper target "dm-crypt" some month ago which uses
cryptoapi and is compatible with cryptoloop. I never got much feedback,
some people tested it and found it to work just fine while cryptoloop
didn't, back then, when the test-series started or so.

Unfortunately I never got much public support on LKML itself and was
mostly ignored. And I'm not a politician...

Well, I just talked to Joe Thornber (again, he helped me developing the
patch) and he wrote:

> I'm happy to take the dm-crypt stuff into my unstable tree.  I don't
> think you'll get it into the kernel unless you get the cryptoloop
> people to publically (ie. on lkml) support you.

Well, you see, I'm a sort of difficult situation here. I would really be
happy to hear what you think of it, if it's worth to invest more energy
or not.

The target is currently a single file and makes use of dm-daemon.c from
Joe's current device-mapper patchset where the snapshot, mirror and
multpath targets are being developed.

The two patches (dm-daemon and the actual dm-crypt) are following.

A short introduction how to use the target:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105967481007242&w=2

--
Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
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2003-12-22 21:42 loop driver, device-mapper and crypto Christophe Saout
2003-12-22 21:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add dm-daemon Christophe Saout
2003-12-23 12:27   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 15:10     ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-22 21:52 ` [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target Christophe Saout
2003-12-22 23:07   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-22 23:24     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-22 23:29       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-22 23:50         ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-23  0:10           ` Christophe Saout
2003-12-23  2:53   ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-23 13:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 13:36     ` Christophe Saout
2003-12-23 15:15       ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-23 15:31         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-23 15:43           ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-23 17:01             ` Christophe Saout
2003-12-23 17:15               ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-23 17:14                 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-22 22:03 ` loop driver, device-mapper and crypto Andrew Morton
2003-12-23 11:14   ` Fruhwirth Clemens
     [not found] <15G6g-4oz-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <15Gg9-4H6-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-12-22 22:29   ` [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target Andi Kleen
2003-12-23 15:11     ` Christophe Saout

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