From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265296AbUBPBx0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:53:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265315AbUBPBx0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:53:26 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:27060 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265296AbUBPBxY (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:53:24 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:53:37 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Christophe Saout Cc: hch@infradead.org, thornber@redhat.com, mikenc@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) Message-Id: <20040215175337.5d7a06c9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040216014433.GA5430@leto.cs.pocnet.net> References: <402A4B52.1080800@centrum.cz> <1076866470.20140.13.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040215180226.A8426@infradead.org> <1076870572.20140.16.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040215185331.A8719@infradead.org> <1076873760.21477.8.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040215194633.A8948@infradead.org> <20040216014433.GA5430@leto.cs.pocnet.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christophe Saout wrote: > > + This device-mapper target allows you to create a device that > + transparently encrypts the data on it. You'll need to activate > + the required ciphers in the cryptoapi configuration in order to > + be able to use it. Is there more documentation that this? I'd imagine a lot of crypto-loop users wouldn't have a clue how to get started on dm-crypt, especially if they have not used device mapper before. And how do they migrate existing encrypted filesytems?