Re: loop.c transfer module api

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:54:11 +0200


On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 04:26:35AM -0500, kernel@draper.net wrote:
> The #1 issue (I hope!) was that loopback crypto filesystems cannot be
> relocated.

And, more importantly, cannot be restored off backup. This is really a
very bad problem.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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