Re: metadata and contents in loop device

Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de)
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:18:19 +0100


On 2002-01-22T13:02:01,
Michael Zhu <mylinuxk@yahoo.ca> said:

> Hello, everyone, in my loop device I want to use
> different keys to en/decrypt the file contents and the
> metadata of directories/file names information. But
> how can I differentiate these two types of data in the
> loop device? The loop device just cares about the
> block. But the metadata of directories/file names
> information is just the file system information. Any
> idea about this? Thanks in advance.

You can't.

Not without a special filesystem, which stored both kinds of data on different
block devices. Have fun writing one ;-)

What is the intended use of this?

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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