Christian Boltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Am Mittwoch, 30. August 2006 10:46 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: >> * crypto FS >> >> Kay proposes to replace cryptsetup with: >> http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt > [...] > > Well, he's not the first one ;-)
;-) > Quoting my comment from > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57472#c6: > > Using DM-Crypt and Cryptsetup-LUKS would have several advantages: > - multiple (max. 8) passwords for a partition - so each user can have > its own password > - passwords can be changed without re-encrypting the whole partition > > BTW: There was an interesting article about this in the german > Linux-Magazin 08/2005 if someone is interested in the details. > > -> Using DM-Crypt is a very good idea :-) OK. > >> * Removing build dependencies, speeding up the build process > > Also a good idea - but please make sure not to accidently remove > features (some configure scripts probe at runtime which libraries for > databases etc. are available) Yes, agreed. >> * /dev/hd removal: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/9/285 > > If the replacement is /dev/sd*, it's not a very good idea because sd* > supports only 15 partitions... > > What about doing it the other way round - only use the /dev/hd* > namespace and drop /dev/sd*? (Well, this is probably a very naive > question ;-) Read the URL - this is discussed upstream on the lkml mailing list, we're just responding, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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