From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265526AbUALOMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:12:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265532AbUALOMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:12:42 -0500 Received: from mail2.ugr.es ([150.214.35.29]:26792 "EHLO mail2.ugr.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265526AbUALOMj (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:12:39 -0500 Message-ID: <4002AB67.3010005@ugr.es> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:12:55 +0100 From: Ruben Garcia User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ja, en, es-es MIME-Version: 1.0 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 References: <3FFC3BF4.6080105@ugr.es> <20040108040414.GA5017@fukurou.paranoiacs.org> <3FFD34D5.1080605@ugr.es> In-Reply-To: <3FFD34D5.1080605@ugr.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.