Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:07:57 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target |
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Christophe Saout wrote: > Hi, > > this is the actual dm-crypt target. It uses cryptoapi to achive the same > goal as cryptoloop. > > It uses mempools to ensure not to ever run out of memory and can split > large IOs into smaller ones under memory pressure. > > Tested by some people, also works on a swap device.
I like this. Nice and clean.
May I assume that this is -not- intended as a replacement for cryptoloop? I hope so, as that would be my recommendation: new driver, new on-disk format.
cryptoloop predates block layer stacking, and also support files, so I would prefer to emphasize their differences. A replacement for cryptoloop means you must support cryptoloop's on-disk format.
Jeff
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