Re: cryptsetup support for dm-crypt suspend/resume

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:21:36 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote:
> Makes sense and increases security. I am wondering however whether
> this could just be scripted by
> 1) Store all parameters besides key in some file
> 2) Completely remove and umount the device before suspend.
> 3) An resume: Use a wraper around dm-crypt that gets the parameters 
>    from the file, asks for the password and initializes and mounts 
>    the device just as if it was newly created.

If I understand it correctly, this would require unmounting the
partition (and thus killing all programs using it), which I would like
to avoid. And cached contents of the filesystem would probably remain in
RAM anyway.

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