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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: Justin Whitney <ripple.gentoo@××××××.be>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ziso rather than cloop
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 02:46:02
Message-Id: 20030406024559.GA2005@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ziso rather than cloop by Justin Whitney
1 Reply from lu_zero on IRC was:
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3 <lu_zero> I'd avoid zisofs just because of the overhead
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5 If you'd like a more in-depth explanation, he might be able to provide
6 you with one if you emailed lu_zero@g.o...
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8 On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 02:48:27PM -0500, Justin Whitney wrote:
9 > I'm new here (and new to gentoo) so please forgive me if this has been
10 > discussed before. I've been working with your 1.4rc3 release, adding
11 > support for loopback encrypted filesystems. Everything boots fine, but
12 > as the kernel I'm using doesn't have cloop support (yet), it failed at
13 > the livecd load stage. My next step is of course to add cloop support
14 > to my kernel, and all *should* be well...
15 >
16 > It seems, though, that your use of cloop is less widely supported than
17 > other solutions - it would perhaps be more robust to use the ziso
18 > transparent iso decompression extension which is present in 2.4 kernels,
19 > even (at least it is in my 21-pre6 kernel), for example. So I'm
20 > wondering why the choice of cloop over zisofs?
21 >
22 > Thanks,
23 >
24 > Justin Whitney
25 >
26 >
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