From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267871AbUGWSU1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:20:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267872AbUGWSU1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:20:27 -0400 Received: from websrv.werbeagentur-aufwind.de ([213.239.197.241]:26773 "EHLO websrv.werbeagentur-aufwind.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267871AbUGWSUZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:20:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop From: Christophe Saout To: Kevin Corry Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Walter Hofmann , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <200407230901.33814.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> References: <2kvT4-5AY-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <2kECW-3a0-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <200407230901.33814.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-hUz+enPtvGAuuodtMS/u" Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:20:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1090606819.17093.1.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.9.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-hUz+enPtvGAuuodtMS/u Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Fr, den 23.07.2004 um 9:01 Uhr -0500 schrieb Kevin Corry: > > I use cryptoloop and I would be really annoyed if it disappeared in > > the stable kernel series. Besides, I read in another mail in this threa= d > > that dm-crypt will not work with file-based storage (I'm using > > cryptoloop on a file), and that it is new and potentially buggy. >=20 > Just to clarify this one point... > Device-Mapper (and thus dm-crypt) can only create mappings on block-devic= es.=20 > However, in your situation, you could just take a two-step approach of=20 > creating a loop device on the encrypted file (using losetup), and then us= ing=20 > dm-crypt on top of this loop device. Yes, just look at the Wiki page on http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ , people have contributed a lot of scripts. --=-hUz+enPtvGAuuodtMS/u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBAVbiZCYBcts5dM0RAoY7AJ4jL+PM2B6MkDh2BDNf0BgRh5K4owCfXJ0n ka33HqG1o4zYcwvf0/vEF9Q= =Z0Kp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hUz+enPtvGAuuodtMS/u--