Re: loop-AES with ReiserFS for file-backed loop?

[markus reichelt <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Anon <loop-aes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Markus Reichelt wrote:  
> > I guess you really need experience with it :-) How hard can it be? 
> I am not stupid by any means or measure, and it can be difficult
> *for a person who does not have all* the necessary information. 
> *Any process can be difficult to understand with important
> information missing.  I think it is important to realize we all
> start from the beginning, without any prior knowldge on any subject
> of study, including encrypted filesystems.  Nobody is born with how
> to use loop-AES, or Linux, or even how to tie their shoes, encoded
> into their genes.

I stick with what I wrote. Sooner or later you _will_ need the
experience, like we all do. What I meant, in detail, is that it's not
done with setup, one needs to know about possible "emergency
situations" as well. What do you do if something goes wrong?
Filesystem needs checkup / won't mount? Things like that need to be
tested, better sooner than later. To cope with such a situation one
needs to understand the whole process first. Asking a mailing list is
not always possible; at the very least it delays system operations.
So, better have some experience / documented it yourself (e.g. have
written some usable [understandable] scripts).


> I did carefully RTFM several times, I did very carefully consider
> all the examples in loop-AES.README, and I do understand how to use
> the "regular" loop device.  Still, I never used a *stack* of loop
> devices, and I still do not seem to understand how to stack the
> loops in the context of using two encrypted loops under loop-AES. 
> I invite you to fill in all the details if you can.

I myself try to play with such things first, get them to work on my
own. If it doesn't work, there's always the mailing list ('s
archives). What I said doesn't contradict what you wrote, it's just a
different approach. Don't feel insulted, I surely didn't mean it.

After all, experience never hurts; one never can know too much :-)

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