On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:23:55PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:22:32PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > >> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:21:27PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > > >> > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:27:15PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > >> > > > >> > If you're interested in writing your own targets I suggest you look at > > >> > a couple of the trivial targets that already exist. Such as > > >> > dm-linear.c, dm-stripe.c. > > > > >> i am planning to write my own targets as a graduate project. > > >> My idea was encryption and possibly compression as well. > > >> (is anyone else doing any of these targets?) > > > > An encrypting target would be nice, but does it offer any value over an encrypting loopback device? > > I still don't trust the loop device enough to use it. Why not? What makes you think you will trust an encryption target that also uses cryptoAPI? JonB _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/