Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:12:55 +0100 | From | Ruben Garcia <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: loop device changes the block size and causes misaligned accesses to the real device, which can't be processed |
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Ruben Garcia wrote: > Ok, Ben's patch will make the loop device work as any other device, and > then ext2 will complain that the hard blocksize is bigger than the > blocksize used for ext2 (in my example of 1k for ext2) and fail to mount > it. > > This is better than getting misaligned transfers et all, and is > consistent with using the real device. > > On the other hand, it is much more useful being able to actually mount > the ext2 fs, and I managed to do that with the loop-aes patch (Thanks > Jari Ruusu) > > I confirm this bug closed. Thanks to all >
I tried Ben's patch and it does work for encrypted CDs (i.e. you can mount them) I'm going to try a non encrypted CD now to see what I find.
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