Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

>Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 07:15 schrieb ext Colin:
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>>When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel?  I can emerge
>>reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab.
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>AFAIK there are kernel sources which have reiser4 patched in.
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>>Also, are there any good, journaled and encrypting filesystems for
>>Linux?  I thought Reiser4 would have an encryption plugin;  did I read
>>that somewhere or am I mistaken?
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>Encryption happens on device level, not filesystem level. Using dm-crypt 
>[1], you first create an encrypted device and then put whatever filesystem 
>you want on that device:
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>cryptsetup create /dev/hda3 crypto
>mkreiserfs /dev/mapper/crypto
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>HTH...
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>       Dirk
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>[1]: http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt
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Hi,
Could also use loop-aes instead of dm-crypt, it's a kernel module. Check
the site/docs.
HTH. Rumen

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