From: Ruben Garcia <ruben@ugr.es>
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: loop device changes the block size and causes misaligned accesses to the real device, which can't be processed
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:12:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4002AB67.3010005@ugr.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFD34D5.1080605@ugr.es>
Ruben Garcia wrote:
> Ok, Ben's patch will make the loop device work as any other device, and
> then ext2 will complain that the hard blocksize is bigger than the
> blocksize used for ext2 (in my example of 1k for ext2) and fail to mount
> it.
>
> This is better than getting misaligned transfers et all, and is
> consistent with using the real device.
>
> On the other hand, it is much more useful being able to actually mount
> the ext2 fs, and I managed to do that with the loop-aes patch (Thanks
> Jari Ruusu)
>
> I confirm this bug closed. Thanks to all
>
I tried Ben's patch and it does work for encrypted CDs (i.e. you can
mount them) I'm going to try a non encrypted CD now to see what I find.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-12 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-07 17:03 loop device changes the block size and causes misaligned accesses to the real device, which can't be processed Ruben Garcia
2004-01-07 18:12 ` loop device changes the block size and causes misaligned accessesto " Jari Ruusu
2004-01-12 4:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-08 4:04 ` [PATCH] Re: loop device changes the block size and causes misaligned accesses to " Ben Slusky
2004-01-08 10:45 ` Ruben Garcia
2004-01-12 14:12 ` Ruben Garcia [this message]
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