Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Add dm-crypt target

[Jeff Garzik]

Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > would prefer to emphasize their differences.  A replacement for 
> > cryptoloop means you must support cryptoloop's on-disk format.
>
>
> Do you dislike the cryptoloop format?
>
> What if you wanted to take a disk that was used with dm-crypt, and copy it
> to a file on a larger filesystem?  Would the data now be inaccessable
> because it's not in a format mountable by a loop driver?


Remember we are talking about two -totally different- drivers here.

I can't take my reiserfs data, copy it to a file on a larger filesystem, 
and then mount it with ext3.  And that's a good thing.

dm-crypt should not be constrained by cryptoloop, and vice versa.

	Jeff


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