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Message-ID: <g9ac4c$lm5$1@ger.gmane.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:57:27 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: An idea .... with code

Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>  As far as features are concerned, please suggest me what could be done with /dev/loop0 and not for /dev/vblk?
>> Serious question?  cryptoloop, offsets are the big ticket items,
>> i'm sure there are more.
> 
> As far as cryptoloop goes, isnt that obsoleted anyway? is there anyone
> that doesent use dm-crypt by now?

I, for one, have never been able to figure out how to use dm-crypt with 
cryptoloop files. If I had, for instance, a file and knew that if I 
started at a certain offset using a certain encryption with a certain 
key, and I wanted to mount my part of it, I have never persuaded 
dm-crypt to do that.

All proposed solutions have started  with copy or convert, neither of 
which are practical with this data.
> 
> as for offsets, isnt this a logical thing to do with devicemapper
> aswell?
> 
> ofcourse loop/losetup cannot just be removed, theres probably LOTS of
> scripts around which are being used.
> 

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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