Stefan Radomski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > to use filesystem encryption via the loopback-device, you need the > cryptoapi and the patch for the loopback device (eg. loop-jari). > > You get 'ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument' because the loop > device loaded in the kernel is not patched, build the loop device as > module, the 'right' one is called 'cryptoloop'. > > The relevant modules from my lsmod output: > cipher-aes 21172 2 > cryptoloop 1708 2 > loop 10032 4 [cryptoloop] > cryptoapi 3660 5 [cipher-aes cryptoloop]
Many thanks, Stefan, for these (and other) helpful pointers. My problem turned out to be a simple one, which I'll document here, for the record. I wanted to do this the Debian Way, so I installed cryptoloop-source and ran make-kpkg. The loop-jari patch said it applied correctly, despite the version mismatch between my 2.4.19 kernel and the 2.4.18 patch version. The bug was simple: I hadn't unpacked the module source in /usr/src/cryptoloop.tar.gz, so the cryptoloop module wasn't compiled. Easily fixed, once I figured that out. Thanks for the help, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
