Re: An idea .... with code
From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 22:43:46 EST
Kasper Sandberg wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
As far as features are concerned, please suggest me what could be done with /dev/loop0 and not for /dev/vblk?
Serious question? cryptoloop, offsets are the big ticket items,
i'm sure there are more.
As far as cryptoloop goes, isnt that obsoleted anyway? is there anyone
that doesent use dm-crypt by now?
I, for one, have never been able to figure out how to use dm-crypt with
cryptoloop files. If I had, for instance, a file and knew that if I
started at a certain offset using a certain encryption with a certain
key, and I wanted to mount my part of it, I have never persuaded
dm-crypt to do that.
All proposed solutions have started with copy or convert, neither of
which are practical with this data.
as for offsets, isnt this a logical thing to do with devicemapper
aswell?
ofcourse loop/losetup cannot just be removed, theres probably LOTS of
scripts around which are being used.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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