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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: loop device changes the block size and causes misaligned accesses to the real device, which can't be processed
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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