Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop

mattia
2004-07-23T12:50:47Z

What ? :)
I use cryptoloop for all my DVD archives and local partitions!
When dm-crypt will be stable, well tested and compatible with cryptoloop
it could make sense to move to it, otherwise not.
Please do not remove cryptoloop from the stable kernel.

> You wrote on linux.kernel:
> > dpf-lkml@fountainbay.com wrote:
> >>
> >> Hopefully someone else will follow up, but I hope I'm somewhat
convincing:
> >
> > Not really ;)
> >
> > 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.
>
> I'm really surprised that people here argue that dm-crypt doesn't get
> enough testing so cryptoloop has to go to force people to test dm-crypt
> with their valuable data. This is all upside-down. First dm-crypt has to
> be stable, safe and feature-complete, then people can convert their data
> to dm-crypt and only then can cryptoloop be deleted.
>
> Walter
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