> > Installing an additional module is easy ( especially, if dkms is > > part of the distribution); compiling an own kernel is time > > consuming and too difficult for many users. > > In case you made loop-aes work on ubuntu 9.04 I've tried it again now with opensuse 11.1 ( CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m ) and ubuntu 9.04 ( CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y ). I made some very trivial changes in the source code of loop-aes and the util-linux patches ( in the main, I've renamed functions like loop_unregister_transfer , and used different ioctls and a different block major number for loop-aes) After that, I was able to use the mainline loop driver (loop.ko, unpatched version of losetup and blockdevices at/dev/loop[0-7]) and loop-aes ( xloop*.ko, a patched version of losetup and /dev/xloop[0-7] ) at the same time and without any obvious problems. So I wonder, if there are any deeper conflicts between mainline loop and loop-aes, so they should not be used in parallel? - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
