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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

       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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