On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:50:11PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:34:44PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote:
> >
> >>Amanda users have used aespipe in the past, so it's there.
> >Hmmm, AFAIK is aespipe part of loop-aes and loop-aes is deprecated
> >because the kernel developers want to switch to devmapper.  Please
> >correct me and clarify if I'm wrong.
> 
> devmapper seems to be merged into the mainline Linux and loop-aes has 
> not. However, for the purpose of backup encryption, it's still a valid 
> solution. Debian and Gentoo distribute it and it's actively maintained 
> by the author.
> 

devmapper/loop-aes/aespipe, all linux'isms ??
And some as kernel facilities?

How do they fit with compiling amanda on unix, various BSDs,
Solaris, AIX, Tru64, HP-UX, OSX, and/or cygwin?

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