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Re:CryptAPI by TheEnglishman · 2001-11-29 06:42 · Score: 1 · on Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS?

Patches are here at kernel.org, but no READMEs.
You might also want to look at the kernel/crypto directory also at kernel.org.

There is also a pointer to cryptoapi.sourceforge.net

Re:CryptAPI by TheEnglishman · 2001-11-29 06:42 · Score: 1 · on Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS?

Patches are here at kernel.org, but no READMEs.
You might also want to look at the kernel/crypto directory also at kernel.org.

There is also a pointer to cryptoapi.sourceforge.net

CryptoAPI Still Being Updated by kylus · 2001-11-29 06:27 · Score: 1 · on Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS?

From the README.WARNING in the crypto/ directory on kernel.org:

"(please see also ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr for more recent patches or http://cryptoapi.sourceforge.net/"

If you read the whole thing you can see there are updated patches to the crypto API, but they are works in progress. I'm using the patch for 2.4.15 and I haven't seen any major problems (yet?).

CryptoAPI Still Being Updated by kylus · 2001-11-29 06:27 · Score: 1 · on Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS?

From the README.WARNING in the crypto/ directory on kernel.org:

"(please see also ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr for more recent patches or http://cryptoapi.sourceforge.net/"

If you read the whole thing you can see there are updated patches to the crypto API, but they are works in progress. I'm using the patch for 2.4.15 and I haven't seen any major problems (yet?).

The International Kernel Patch by Goodbyte · 2001-11-29 04:51 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS?

I'm running a mix between the international kernel patch www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/crypto, (accually http://www.kerneli.org but it hasn't been alive for some time now) and crypto api (which is a branch from kerneli.)
Something needs to be done about the block size problem - the solution from cryptoapi doesn't seem "the right way" ;-)

The best things about kerneli are the possibility to choose between different encryption algorithms and that it's not filesystem dependent. Though I miss the oppertunity to use the encryption algorithms in userspace programs. (Same thing about the digest algorithms, do thay have any function except for enlarging the kernel size?)

I'm currently testing a pam module that mounts kerneli encrypted home directories, release scheduled a few weeks into the future.

Re:preemptable patch by sagei · 2001-11-26 08:38 · Score: 2 · on Linux 2.4.16 Released

Should this patch make a difference on SMP systems? I heard it used the same semantics as SMP support, only on UP systems. If that's the case there shouldn't be a difference. Is the SMP kernel fully preemptible by default?

Yes, it will. The SMP kernel is no more preemptible than the UP one. What we mean by saying "the preempt-kernel patch leverages the existing SMP locks" is that we take advantage of the fact the linux kernel is already protected against concurrency and reentrancy where needed, and we make use of that.

In other words, an SMP system will benefit from a preemptible kernel in the same manner a UP system will ... the kernel still runs to completition without the patch. That said, the effects will be a little less pronounced since you have a second CPU to run tasks and thus scheduling latency won't be as bad ... at least in theory, heh.

The patches are at kernel.org but please use a mirror. The 2.4.16-pre1 patch is fine as previous mentioned, but I'll put up a rediff against 2.4.16 soon.

Re:And 2.5.1? by psamuels · 2001-11-26 05:36 · Score: 1 · on Linux 2.4.16 Released

one could hope there will be an (identical) patch-2.5.1.gz file in the 2.5 directory...

See 2.5.1-pre1. The patch is not identical to the v2.4 version, but that shouldn't surprise anyone who follows kernel development - sometimes the "conceptually correct" fix to a problem is not the same as the "most obvious and bug-free" fix.

Re:Linking by psamuels · 2001-11-26 05:28 · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux 2.4.16 Released

..... considering that the patch is less than 6KB.

Pedantically speaking, the patch is 17330 bytes long. It compresses to under 6KB.

This has to be a record for the smallest kernel release increment yet!

Actually that would be 1.0.9, at 2678 uncompressed bytes.

(Not counting pre-1.0 releases, or -pre* releases, or 2.3.0 or 2.5.0 which are just version number changes.)

Re:Linking by Draoi · 2001-11-26 02:51 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Linux 2.4.16 Released

..... considering that the patch is less than 6KB. This has to be a record for the smallest kernel release increment yet! (How many people out there are opting to d/l the whole 26MB package 8-b )

Pete C

preemptable patch by MartinG · 2001-11-26 02:29 · Score: 3, Informative · on Linux 2.4.16 Released

For those interested, the preemptable patch against 2.4.16-pre1 also applies cleanly to 2.4.16 final.

Linking by jeriqo · 2001-11-26 02:08 · Score: 5, Informative · on Linux 2.4.16 Released

Current bandwidth utilization 96.75 Mbit/s

Out of 100mbps..

Linking directly to the .tar.gz from the slashdot homepage was not a good idea, timothy.

You should have pointed to the mirrors, instead:

2.4.16-pre1 is out by the+COW+OF+DOOM+(tm) · 2001-11-24 11:59 · Score: 1 · on Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

..including the patch for this bug. get it here

A fix... by phyngerz · 2001-11-24 05:21 · Score: 4, Informative · on Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

You can find Andrea Arcangeli's fix at:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/an drea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15aa1/00_iput-unmount-corrup tion-fix-1

Continued freedom... by kanayo · 2001-11-24 03:03 · Score: 1 · on Cybercrime Treaty Signed

The continued freedom to create and use free software is always in danger. Unfortunately, some interests seem to use the tragic events of September 11, 2001 as an excuse for wide-ranging infringement on civil liberties, some of which may threaten the very ability to create free software at all.
- http://kernel.org/

Re:Preemptible kernel by pwagland · 2001-11-23 09:12 · Score: 2 · on Linux 2.4.15 is out; Linux 2.5.0 has also begun.

There is already a 2.4.15pre9 patch here. As always, please use the mirrors!

This patch is not 100% clean, but the only reject is on an already patched file.

patching file CREDITS Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n] Skipping patch.

Re:Preemptible kernel by pwagland · 2001-11-23 09:12 · Score: 2 · on Linux 2.4.15 is out; Linux 2.5.0 has also begun.

There is already a 2.4.15pre9 patch here. As always, please use the mirrors!

This patch is not 100% clean, but the only reject is on an already patched file.

patching file CREDITS Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n] Skipping patch.

Download Patch Here by Laven · 2001-11-23 09:08 · Score: 1 · on Linux 2.4.15 is out; Linux 2.5.0 has also begun.

It seems that a patch against 2.4.15-pre9 was released, but the web page wasn't updated. You can get it from here. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/ preempt-kernel/2.4/