Re: Who is using cryptsetup reload?

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On 27/02/2008 Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
> Are there any active users of the "cryptsetup reload" action? 

I don't know of any.

> In my opinion this action is useless, as you will never ever change
> encryption keys, offset nor underlying device on the fly. For resizing
> we still have the resize option. My intention is to deprecate reload
> and remove it later on.

I advocate that intention. Using resize action seems to be dangerous
on LUKS devices (see http://bugs.debian.org/428288), and people tend
to try it when the resize action fails.

greetings,
 jonas

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