On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 14:50, Phil Grundig <wdef200@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I once asked on the Puppy linux forum if they would build the loop driver as a loadable module instead of compiling it into the kernel, and got no response. This was after a I spent a few hours recompiling the Puppy kernel, rebuilding the initrd and remastering the iso to produce a Puppy with loop-aes. More work than it was worth, though it was an interesting project, which is why I guess I did it: > > http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18103 > > Damnsmallllinux has my loop-aes 3.x extension in the repo; this works and is a reasonably current version, however DSL itself is fairly old software now but at least it's a lot smaller than Knoppix and will run on very old hardware. > > I'm told that TinyCore linux intend to build loop.ko in the future instead of compiling it into the kernel. <smug> I guess all that compilation in Gentoo is good for something after all? :) </smug> I have this weird thing where I actually _like_ compiling kernels, if just to see what's new/changed. Not sure why it takes you guys so long to compile kernels, even with ~600 modules mine seldom take more than 30 minutes to compile. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
