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Re: File systems on 4k sector devices?
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 07:06:04PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
>
> But that also means that you cannot copy an encrypted image to
> a disk with different geometry. Someone has decide wether that's
> worthwhile. In that case you can either build a blocking/deblocking
> layer into cgd (ugly) or define that larger blocks are split into
> individually encrypted chunks of 512 bytes.
I believe either way, there are atomicity issues. A converter might be
in order or, as Christos suggested to me privately, just require the
user to mount both disks and restore the data through the filesystem.
Thor
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