Re: [ANNOUNCE] cryptsetup 2.2.0-rc1 (experimental)

Ondrej Kozina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/15/19 2:49 PM, Jordan Glover wrote:
> 
> One question: does reencryption allows changing block size?
> For example: old size:512, new size:4096

Hi,

new reencryption code indeed supports change of encryption block size 
(both ways), even in online mode. But user has to ask for it explicitly 
by specifying --sector-size parameter when initializing device 
reencryption. By default we retain original encryption sector size (from 
luksFormat action).

But I strongly recommend to be careful with it. Changing encryption 
sector size on devices underneath existing filesystem is tricky. See my 
post on pvmove of existing fs from dm-crypt with 512 sector size to 
dm-crypt with 4K sector size: 
https://www.saout.de/pipermail/dm-crypt/2019-February/006078.html

You have to ensure the filesystem can handle device limits increase to 
4K (that's what encryption sector size increase actually does). It's 
safe for fs formatted with blocksize set to 4K. But if fs was formatted 
with blocksize < 4K do not try do not try to increase encryption sector 
size beyond filesystem block size.

Kind regards
O.
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