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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > I wanted to setup a blowfish encrypted file which is then mounted via > loopback. So I did: > > losetup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /file > Password: > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop0 > mount /dev/loop0 /mnt > <error unknown fs type> > <from here something was seriously broken... could not reboot anymore> Did you pre-create the file? I've been doing something quite similar since about test6, although I use ext2 and aes I don't suspect that matters. But I did preallocate the file with dd first. I assume you did that, since you don't give a size in mkfs, but better to mention it. > > system is: > Linux no 2.6.0-test7 #8 Sun Oct 26 17:00:49 CET 2003 ppc GNU/Linux > > (benh rsync tree) I've run both dead stock test releases, -mm, and most recently a mix of Nick and Con scheduler and io patches. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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