Re: loop.c transfer module api
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:50:02 +0200
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 12:21:00PM -0500, kernel@draper.net wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:54:11AM +0200, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> Certainly it can be restored from a backup... by a procedure that
> preserves the original location of the underlying partition (or file).
Do you have such a procedure?
--
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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