Re: [linux-lvm] Can I combine LUKS and LVM to achieve encryption and snapshots?

2023-09-27 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 27. 09. 23 v 1:10 Jean-Marc Saffroy napsal(a): Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:00 PM Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Yep typical usage is to encrypt underlying PV - and then create LVs and its snapshots on encrypted device. Sure, I'd do that in other circumstances. But in my case it would just be

Re: [linux-lvm] Can I combine LUKS and LVM to achieve encryption and snapshots?

2023-09-27 Thread Harald Dunkel
What about encrypting the physical volumes, and creating the volume groups and logical volumes on top of it? Regards Harri ___ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at

Re: [linux-lvm] Can I combine LUKS and LVM to achieve encryption and snapshots?

2023-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Saffroy
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:58 AM Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > > Dne 27. 09. 23 v 1:10 Jean-Marc Saffroy napsal(a): > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:00 PM Zdenek Kabelac > > wrote: > >> Yep typical usage is to encrypt underlying PV - and then create LVs and its > >> snapshots on encrypted

Re: [linux-lvm] Can I combine LUKS and LVM to achieve encryption and snapshots?

2023-09-27 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 27. 09. 23 v 15:45 Jean-Marc Saffroy napsal(a): On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:58 AM Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Dne 27. 09. 23 v 1:10 Jean-Marc Saffroy napsal(a): Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:00 PM Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Yep typical usage is to encrypt underlying PV - and then create LVs and

Re: [linux-lvm] Can I combine LUKS and LVM to achieve encryption and snapshots?

2023-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Saffroy
Wow, that was very harsh AND very wrong. All storage devices die eventually, that's why we have backups (and RAID, off-site replication, etc). HDDs and SSDs are the same in this respect. SSDs do NOT die just from repeated writes to the same sector: this can happen with raw flash cells, but SSDs