From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267733AbUGWOD3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:03:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267735AbUGWOD3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:03:29 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:6828 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267733AbUGWOD2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:03:28 -0400 From: Kevin Corry To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:01:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Walter Hofmann , Andrew Morton References: <2kvT4-5AY-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <2kECW-3a0-7@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407230901.33814.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/