Re: dm-crypt using kthread

From: Christophe Saout
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 05:16:56 EST


Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb Grzegorz Kulewski um 05:14:

> Yes, I understand that (at least I think so...). But Knopix (and probably
> other distros) use 2.4 with compressing loop patch, and I think somebody
> at Gentoo is trying to port that patch to 2.6 for Gentoo's LiveCD... So it
> was done somehow... (I do not know how, however.)

compressed loop is read-only. The filesystem is created on a normal
device, then encrypted into a big file with a static index.


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