On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:45:01PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote > On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 02:31:08 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > I'm trying to set up USB-key-encryption for use with a laptop. I'm > > running mdev instead of udev on the laptop, so lvm doesn't work. > > I find this strange, as LVM can manage the /dev-entries directly. > On my systems, this is necessary as udev regularly fails to properly handle > these entries. > > Eg. the following setting: " verify_udev_operations = 1 " > There are other options for udev documented in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.
Unfortunately, mdev != udev. People running RAID have problems too. > I believe " cryptsetup " does not use the LVM tools. But has a new device > created by the kernel directly, which should be picked up by a device manager > directly. But cryptsetup pulls in lvm2 as a dependancy... [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv cryptsetup These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.103 USE="readline (-clvm) (-cman) -lvm1 -lvm2create_initrd (-selinux) -static -static-libs -thin -udev" 1,313 kB [ebuild N ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.6.2 USE="openssl -gcrypt -kernel -nettle -nls -python -reencrypt -static -static-libs -udev -urandom" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python2_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 1,162 kB -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
