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Delete cryptoloop

PATCH mattia 1 participant 1 message Jul 23, 2004

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What ? :)
I use cryptoloop for all my DVD archives and local partitions! When dm-crypt will be stable, well tested and compatible with cryptoloop it could make sense to move to it, otherwise not.
Please do not remove cryptoloop from the stable kernel.

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You wrote on linux.kernel:

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Hopefully someone else will follow up, but I hope I'm somewhat

convincing:

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Not really ;)

Your points can be simplified to "I don't use cryptoloop, but

someone else

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might" and "we shouldn't do this in a stable kernel".

Well, I want to hear from "someone else". If removing cryptoloop will irritate five people, well, sorry. If it's 5,000 people, well maybe

not.

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I use cryptoloop and I would be really annoyed if it disappeared in the stable kernel series. Besides, I read in another mail in this thread that dm-crypt will not work with file-based storage (I'm using cryptoloop on a file), and that it is new and potentially buggy.

I'm really surprised that people here argue that dm-crypt doesn't get enough testing so cryptoloop has to go to force people to test dm-crypt with their valuable data. This is all upside-down. First dm-crypt has to be stable, safe and feature-complete, then people can convert their data to dm-crypt and only then can cryptoloop be deleted.

Walter
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