Bug 5333 - Please obsolete the loopback device
Summary: Please obsolete the loopback device
Status: REJECTED WILL_NOT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: IO/Storage
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LVM2/DM (show other bugs)
Hardware: i386 Linux
: P2 low
Assignee: Alasdair G Kergon
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Reported: 2005-09-30 02:50 UTC by Hadmut Danisch
Modified: 2008-09-22 12:21 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6.13
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Description Hadmut Danisch 2005-09-30 02:50:29 UTC 
Hi,

this is rather a wish than a bug report. 

When working with encrypted devices and partitions in files mounted through the
loopback device and device mapper encryption I found it annyoing to tie the
loopback and the dm together, due to it's different user interface etc.

It would be nice to have a device mapper module to directly turn regular files
into block devices like the loop device does, but without the restriction to 8
loopbacks and with the usual dm user interface.

regards
Hadmut
Comment 1 Alasdair G Kergon 2005-09-30 07:19:29 UTC 
Actually, there is some code floating around that does this - I hope to get it
integrated into the dm development tree soon.
Comment 2 Alasdair G Kergon 2007-11-13 05:06:37 UTC 
See the patches at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-loop*
Comment 3 Roland Kletzing 2008-01-27 10:12:02 UTC 
as this has recently posted to lkml - can we have this in mainline, please?
i like choice/options :)
Comment 4 Roland Kletzing 2008-01-29 14:12:39 UTC 
apparently, it`s in -mm now, fine :)
Comment 5 Alan 2008-09-22 12:21:00 UTC 
Closing as will not fix - dm stuff is upstream but obsoleting loop isn't likely to occur and should raised on LKML not here
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