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Re: journaling file systems
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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 20:54, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wrote:
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> One has to wonder why the CryptoAPI cannot be made to function
> in a manner such that loop-aes does with respect to being more
> modular. If CryptoAPI was modular in the manner that loop-aes was, I
> think its usage would be much more accepted.
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This was discussed many times already on this very list. The short
answer is:
cryptoAPI introduces a new interface to the kernel,
loop-aes only uses existing (and stable) interfaces already in the
vanilla kernel.
The long answer is:
Read the archives.
Marc
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Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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