Subject: Re: An idea .... with code
From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:35 +0200
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On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  As far as features are concerned, please suggest me what could be done with /dev/loop0 and not for /dev/vblk?
> 
> Serious question?  cryptoloop, offsets are the big ticket items,
> i'm sure there are more.

As far as cryptoloop goes, isnt that obsoleted anyway? is there anyone
that doesent use dm-crypt by now?

as for offsets, isnt this a logical thing to do with devicemapper
aswell?

ofcourse loop/losetup cannot just be removed, theres probably LOTS of
scripts around which are being used.

> 
> -Andi
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