Re: Loop device

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:36:06 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 Evan Jeffrey <ejeffrey@utrek.ml.org> wrote:

> What are the chances of Andrew Milesk's enhanced and modularized loop driver
> making it into 2.2. If he thinks it is ready for prime time, I think it
> should go in. IMO, it is a big improvement in elegance and functionality
> over the current version.

I'll second this. I think kernel inclusion would be a big push to
getting proper support included in mount(8) by default, too.
Encrypted filesystems are one of the big-win unique features of linux
(at least until NT 5.0).
--Scott
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