I believe using the loopback device is deprecated... the new kernel uses device mapper to encrypt the filesystem. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Encrypting-Filesystems-t1155912.html#a3038074 Sent from the Linux Crypto forum at Nabble.com. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/