Loop devices, version 0
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Loop devices can be used to mount regular files, to put more than one
file system on a disk partition and to provide transparent data
encryption.
Note: This implementation differs from my old loop devices that are
also found in some distributions of SLS.
All this code is covered by the General Public License.
Installation
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Create the device entries in /dev:
for n in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod /dev/loop$n b 12 $n; done
Apply the patch to your ALPHA 0.99pl10 kernel source:
cd /usr/src/linux
patch -s -p1 <lo.patch
If you want to use DES encryption, download the DES module and add it:
cd /usr/src/linux
gunzip <des.tar.z | tar xvf -
rm kernel/des.o
Rebuild the kernel:
make depend
make zlilo # or something like that
Authors
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Original author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu>
Maintainer: Werner Almesberger <almesber@bernina.ethz.ch>
DES author: Eric Young <eay@psych.psy.uq.oz.au>
