On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:23:01PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 27.10.2010, Rick Moritz wrote: > > > Considering the amount of traffic on the list regarding issues like this, > > maybe future versions of dm-crypt should issue an annoying warning when > > creating LUKS-format mapped devices, about how a backup of the header is > > STRONGLY recommended > > No, it's not. Read the FAQ, especially item nr.2 and the answer > from Clemens: > > http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=LUKSFaq Aehm, that is the old, obsolete FAQ. You should not reference it anymore. The current FAQ is at http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions and in the cryptsetup source package. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
