Re: problems with kerneli patch?

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

I've got a crypto loopback running directly on a /dev/md0
partition and then the file system on top of that. I'm
interested in what the feelings of others are on the
trade offs of doing it this way.

Is there something to be gained by adding a file system
layer between the /dev/md0 and the loopback file as far
as error recovery is concerned?

Do I actually gain performance (as I am guessing currently
that I do) by eliminating one layer?

It's just a plaything right now, but I'd be interested
in some feedback on the wisdom of it before I actually
use this on something important. So just to reiterated:

                               fs
	  fs                c. loopback
	c. loopback  vs        fs
	 raid1                raid1
	disk disk           disk disk

where fs = ext2 until this evening when I replace it
with reiserfs.

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