Re: Problems encrypting disk partitions in 2.4.3

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:20:30PM -0400, Tad Truex wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Richard Polton wrote:
> > Wasn't there a bug in the loopback driver which surfaced in 2.4.0 and
> > was fixed in early 2.4.4-pre?

I'm using 2.4.3 + int patches.

> appears to prompt for a seed, mine
> prompts for a keysize.  I am sure that mine is the 2.11b version of
> losetup.  Maybe that is the problem?  Perhaps I need to go back to an
> earlier version?  Might I have missed a compile option?

My fault. The example I pulled from my notes was an older version. The
prompt you see is the same one I get.

I've had it working (seemingly) fine for a month or so. And I've been
trying to get some discussion going on the issues of running crypto
on "bare metal" vs doing it on top of an fs although I think the
bare metal is fine.

I only so the "unusual" behavior the first time I did the
mkfs. And I may not have seen it at all when I changed to
reiserfs.

But if you want a large disk you do have to patch that MCONFIG
file before you make your losetup and friends. Otherwise you
can't deal with large files systems. 

The current debian *standard* 2.11b has the crypto support 
compiled in... I haven't checked in a month to see if they
added the MCONFIG change in CFLAGS. I emailed both the
debian and the util-linux maintainers on this and never
heard from either of them.

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