File system tricks

[Tomasz Ciolek]

 Have a look at the internation crypto patches for the kernel. due to US export restrictions they are stores seperately. Thesep poatches implement several types of crypto filesystems

 regards
 Tomasz Ciolek

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:07:00PM +1000, jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:
> On 28 Sep, Peter Barker wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:
> > 
> >> Are there drivers to mount partitions?  Could I fool the normal
> >> driver into using a file as a partition?  Failing that, does anyone
> >> have a way that I could copy a partition out of a disc image file?
> > 
> > Tried the "offset" option to the loop filing system under mount?
> 
> Thanks Peter, that's what I was looking for.  I wish I had the time to
> read every manpage :)
> 
> Now to start playing 'guess the offset'.
> 
> While I was reading the loop manpage I noticed a huge chunk on encrypted
> filesystems.  Has anyone ever used one?  What are the status of these
> projects?  I would love to have some kind of 'crypt' where I could store
> things like password files.
> -- 
> I/O, I/O,
> It's off to disk I go,
> A bit or byte to read or write,
> I/O, I/O, I/O...
> 



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