linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dm-inlinecrypt: Add inline encryption support

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:04:02 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Adrian Vovk <adrianvovk@...il.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dm-inlinecrypt: Add inline encryption support

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:52:24AM -0400, Adrian Vovk wrote:
> >
> >Sure.  But why would you do that?
> 
> As mentioned earlier in the thread: I don't have a usecase specifically for this and it was an example of a situation where passthrough is necessary and no filesystem is involved at all. Though, as I also pointed out, a usecase where you're putting encrypted virtual partitions on an encrypted LVM setup isn't all that absurd.

Can you please fix your mailer?  It's creating crazy long lines
that are completely unreadable.