Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: An idea .... with code | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:57:27 -0400 |
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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. >
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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