Re: dm-crypt using kthread

[Andi Kleen]

Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb Grzegorz Kulewski um 03:07:
>
>> > Is there more documentation that this?  I'd imagine a lot of crypto-loop
>> > users wouldn't have a clue how to get started on dm-crypt, especially if
>> > they have not used device mapper before.
>> > 
>> > And how do they migrate existing encrypted filesytems?
>> 
>> And is the format considered "stable"?
>> (= if I will create fs on it, will I have problems with future kernels?)
>
> Yes. The cryptoloop compatible format will stay this way. The format
> (basically the cipher used and the iv generation mode) can be specified.

"Can be specified" = not stable, and likely means you cannot use old
file systems.

-Andi

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