On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matthew Dillon <[email protected] > wrote:
> A more sophisticated encrypted swap using LUKS was already available and > could be set up via the installer, capable of encrypting swap and dumps. > Manual configuration through luks is a bit messy though. > > This feature provides a simpler way to just encrypt swap with a random key > via /etc/fstab, perhaps as a preface to potentially implementing more > sophisticated crypto features in /etc/fstab in the future that use dm-crypt > directly and bypass LUKS. > > The master branch now has experimental automatic crypting of swap > available. > If using master, simply recompile and reinstall the /usr/src/sbin/swapon > utility and then specify 'crypt' as a swap option in your /etc/fstab. > For example: > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/da0s1b none swap sw,crypt,trim 0 0 > I set this up today and so far it's working great (with swapcache). Will this eventually work with serno device names? Tim
