From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264278AbTLVBXR (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:23:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264285AbTLVBVf (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:21:35 -0500 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:32523 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264286AbTLVBV0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:21:26 -0500 To: Christophe Saout Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop.c patches, take two From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 02:21:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <15kfk-vj-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (Christophe Saout's message of "Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:30:07 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.2 (i586-suse-linux) References: <15hUp-58e-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <15iGH-6hd-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <15kfk-vj-1@gated-at.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christophe Saout writes: > Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Mika Penttilä um 21:49: > >> Yet another Big Loop Patch... :) >> >> It's not obvious which parts are bug fixes, and which performance >> improvements. What exactly breaks loops on journalling filesystems, and >> how do you solve it? > > What about dropping block device backed support for the loop driver > altogether? We now have a nice device mapper in the 2.6 kernel. I don't Device Mapper doesn't support cryptographic transformations. -Andi