Re: [RFC] LUKS

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 03:50:40PM +0200, Stefan Fiedler wrote:
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> 
> I like your proposal, the varying size of LUKS data per partition has to be 
> considered, though. So there would be non-encryptable filesystems, 
> encryptables (handled by dmsetup) and encrypted (handled by luks). Since we'd 
> have to support all three types anyway, users should be able to choose if a 
> new filesystem is encryptable, and en-/decrypt filesystems in a separate 
> step.

i like the idea of the status "encryptable"
and i think it is possible to convert a used non-encryptable
disk/partition to an encryptable one if it is not completely full.
(depends on the filesystem of course)

th
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