Re: [ANNOUNCE] cryptsetup 1.1.1-rc1 (test release candidate)

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Am 01.05.2010 19:13, schrieb Milan Broz:
> Important changes:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> * Detects and use device-mapper udev support if available.
> 
>   This should allow synchronisation with udev rules and avoid races with udev.
> 
>   If package maintainer want to use old, direct libdevmapper device node creation,
>   use configure option --disable-udev.

Awesome. This should eliminate some problems we've been having.

> * Supports device topology detection for data alignment.
> 
>   If kernel provides device topology ioctl calls, the LUKS data area
>   alignment is automatically set to optimal value.
> 
>   This means that stacked devices (like LUKS over MD/LVM)
>   should use the most optimal data alignment.
> 
>   (You can still overwrite this calculation using --align-payload option.)

Good news.

> * Rearrange tests, "make check" now run all available test for package.

At least some of these tests seem to require root privileges, so won't
work when building as user/in fakeroot.

Anyway, the package seems to work fine so far, but I only did a few
luksOpen calls, nothing more. Thanks for the great work.

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