Re: encrypted swap on loop in 2.4.10-pre12?

From: Jari Ruusu (jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 12:55:11 EST


"steve j. kondik" wrote:
> hmm? both cryptoapi and loop-aes work just fine when encrypting
> anything but swap. this is _only_ with kernel 2.4.10-pre12. i would
> suspect something changed that breaks swap on loopdev in general in this
> kernel.

loop-AES encrypted swap works just fine on 2.4.10-pre12, see:

# uname -a
Linux debian 2.4.10-pre12 #1 Thu Sep 20 20:15:08 EEST 2001 i686 unknown
# vmstat
   procs memory swap io system cpu
 r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
 0 0 1 4708 2708 1824 12856 19 28 682 623 223 119 5 74 21
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/loop6 partition 191512 4704 -1
# losetup /dev/loop6
/dev/loop6: [0301]:170184 (/dev/hda2) offset 0, AES encryption

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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