Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:44:20 -0300 | From | "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <> | Subject | Re: Compression filter for Loopback device |
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Hi Lei,
Em Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Lei Yang escreveu:
| Is there anything like 'losetup' that allows choosing encryption | algorithm for a loopback device that can be used on compression | algorithms? Or in other words, when the data passes through loopback | device to a real storage device, it can be filtered and the filter is | compression instead of encryption; when kernel ask for data in a storage | device that is mounted to a loopback device with compression, it will be | filtered again -- decompressed. | | If there is not a ready-to-use method for this, is there any way I can | implement the idea? | | TIA! Really appreciate any comments.
maybe you can a try a mix: cloop + cryptloop (or something like that), but it will be kludge.
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