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Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>would prefer to emphasize their differences. A replacement for >>cryptoloop means you must support cryptoloop's on-disk format. > > > Do you dislike the cryptoloop format? > > What if you wanted to take a disk that was used with dm-crypt, and copy it > to a file on a larger filesystem? Would the data now be inaccessable > because it's not in a format mountable by a loop driver? Remember we are talking about two -totally different- drivers here. I can't take my reiserfs data, copy it to a file on a larger filesystem, and then mount it with ext3. And that's a good thing. dm-crypt should not be constrained by cryptoloop, and vice versa. Jeff - 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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