Hello Everybody, Actually I forgot to mention the kernel I'am working on, it is Montavista Kernel 2.4.19. In 2.4.19 there is not support for dm_crypt i.e CONFIG_DM_CRYPT. Hence for encryption/decryption , the hooks raid5_make_request and raid5_end_read_request are suggestable or not. Please suggest an approach. Thanks & Regards Chaitanya. --- Luca Berra <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:14:47PM -0700, vinnakota > chaitanya wrote: > >Hello Friends, > > > >I'am working on a "RAID 5 Controller" device to > which > >4 SATA hard drives are connected each of size 80GB. > > > >My requirement is implementing encryption & > >decrpyption for the device. As we don't have any > >filesystem on the target, we are falling on raid > >device driver . The first thing I want to ask is > > > > 1. Whether this approach is recommendable or not. > > why do you want to implement encryption in the raid > engine, > we already have more than one implementation that > plugs nicely over the > raid (dm-crypt or loop-AES), imho we don't need > anither one, and it does > not belong in the raid driver anyway, it is better > to stack multiple > components that do their job well, instead > > -- > Luca Berra -- bluca@xxxxxxxxxx > Communication Media & Services S.r.l. > /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
