Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target

[Andi Kleen]

Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx> 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
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