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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fruhwirth Clemens <clemens@endorphin.org>,
	Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:07:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FE7794D.7000908@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031222215236.GB13103@leto.cs.pocnet.net>

Christophe Saout wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is the actual dm-crypt target. It uses cryptoapi to achive the same
> goal as cryptoloop.
> 
> It uses mempools to ensure not to ever run out of memory and can split
> large IOs into smaller ones under memory pressure.
> 
> Tested by some people, also works on a swap device.


I like this.   Nice and clean.

May I assume that this is -not- intended as a replacement for 
cryptoloop?  I hope so, as that would be my recommendation:  new driver, 
new on-disk format.

cryptoloop predates block layer stacking, and also support files, so I 
would prefer to emphasize their differences.  A replacement for 
cryptoloop means you must support cryptoloop's on-disk format.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-22 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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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