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