From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:29:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d6aga3kr.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15Gg9-4H6-25@gated-at.bofh.it> (Christophe Saout's message of "Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:00:25 +0100")
Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> writes:
> this is the actual dm-crypt target. It uses cryptoapi to achive the same
> goal as cryptoloop.
>
> It uses mempools to ensure not to ever run out of memory and can split
> large IOs into smaller ones under memory pressure.
>
> Tested by some people, also works on a swap device.
Is the IV argument compatible to block backed loop?
If not it would not be possible to use existing block based
loop crypto file systems this way.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <15G6g-4oz-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <15Gg9-4H6-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-12-22 22:29 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-12-23 15:11 ` [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target Christophe Saout
2003-12-22 21:42 loop driver, device-mapper and crypto Christophe Saout
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
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
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