Re: [PATCH] loop.c patches, take two

[Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>]

Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Mika Penttilä um 21:49:

> Yet another Big Loop Patch... :)
> 
> It's not obvious which parts are bug fixes, and which performance 
> improvements. What exactly breaks loops on journalling filesystems, and 
> how do you solve it?

What about dropping block device backed support for the loop driver
altogether? We now have a nice device mapper in the 2.6 kernel. I don't
like the schizophrenic way the loop driver handles these things (and
you'll always run into similar trouble when trying to fix or resolve
this issue). I know this is kind of radical... but everyone loves
radical ideas. ;)

There also a new device mapper target dm-crypt I've written some time
ago, which does basically the same cryptoloop is doing (or tries to do,
whatever ;)) and which seems to work quite well.

I've never had any feedback from the kernel maintainers about including
it into the main kernel. Andrew?

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