At Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:28 +0200, Marwin M. Butcher wrote: > if there are I/O errors on an encrypted partition, one or two bad blocks > for example, is the whole data on this partition lost or, in worst case > just a few files? > > Generally, makes it a difference if the bad blocks lies in the range of > an encrpypted or uncrypted partition (in terms of more data is lost in > the first case)? If it's not the header, you are fine. If it's LUKS header (that means either the first 2kb or in a used key material section) your disk becomes nothing more than a nice fast replacement for /dev/urandom. Meta data redundancy is planned for the next revision of LUKS. Unfortunately, working on my encryption stuff has no priority at all for me. -- Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
