Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:32:14 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | swap & deadlocks [was Re: Encrypted Swap] |
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Hi!
> > I was just searching for swap-encryption-solutions in the lkml-archive. > > Did I get the point saying ther's no way to do swap encryption > > in linux right now? (Well, a swapfile in an encrypted kerneli > > partition r something like that is not really what I want to > > do I think). > > cryptoloop on the blkdev or filebacked should work just fine. However it > will increase memory pressure and it increases the probability for a > deadlock (but normal 2.4 swap activities can deadlock anyways if you do > the math).
Can you show me the math? I guess this should be fixed... Pavel OTOH if it is not fixed, I can forget about nbd swap deadlocks --they too happen only seldom ;-)
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