On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > OK, I found the bug. Loop driver says "I have 512 byte sectors" regardless > > of what hard sector size of underlying device is. Don't blame me for this > > bug, it is a genuine loop bug. > ...which reminds me: Jari, any success getting your loop fixes fed to > Marcelo & Linus for inclusion in the standard kernel? I remember seeing a > the subject being briefly mentioned on lkml but haven't really followed up > whether they got applied or not. Would be nice to have a working loop > driver in the stock kernel for a change.... ...tell that marcelo and/or linus... they are the ones to convince. :-) marcelo doesn't feel comfortable enough to change the semantics in a 2.4.x kernel... I couldn't convince him yet, that everyone doing serious loop encryption, is applying patches to his loop-driver anyway... at least andrea arcangeli has included http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19pre7aa1/00_loop-IV-API-hvr-1 for some time in his -aa series... ...this gives a little hope :-) regards, -- Herbert Valerio Riedel / Phone: (EUROPE) +43-1-58801-18840 Email: hvr@hvrlab.org / Finger hvr@gnu.org for GnuPG Public Key GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 7BB9 2D6C D485 CE64 4748 5F65 4981 E064 883F 4142 - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
