From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>,
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 18:29:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FE77E49.4010303@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031222232433.GT6438@matchmail.com>
Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 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?
Remember we are talking about two -totally different- drivers here.
I can't take my reiserfs data, copy it to a file on a larger filesystem,
and then mount it with ext3. And that's a good thing.
dm-crypt should not be constrained by cryptoloop, and vice versa.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-22 23:29 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
2003-12-22 23:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-22 23:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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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