dmcrypt is part of the whole device-mapper infrastructure : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_mapper LVM is nothing but a tool to manipulate device-mapper easily I do not see any reason for using dmcrypt directly without LVM On 06/02/2018 11:24 AM, Marc Roos wrote: > >>> I would like to try this disk encryption without lvm. >> >>> And then have ceph use this device dmcrypt device >> >> You know that dmcrypt and LVM are tightly linked, right ? > > No I did not. What makes this tightly linked relevant? > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com