On 23 Dec 2015 19:05 +0000, from hmccurdy@xxxxxxxxx (H McCurdy): > Is it possible to get crypt_init() to use a tmpfs instead of a block > device or a file? Not sure exactly what you are looking to do, but you can't put a tmpfs on any storage-backed device. You could however create a temporary (likely sparse) file, store that file in a tmpfs, and create a LUKS container within that file, with a normal file system inside the container which you can use to store data. Would be quite a lot of overhead, though. And you need to be root to mount a tmpfs in the first place, unless you set it up in fstab with a "user" directive, which would sort of defeat the point. Isn't it easier to just set appropriate permissions on a tmpfs (or even ramfs, which would prevent ever writing the data to disk)? You'd get pretty much the same results, minus virtually all the overhead... -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@xxxxxxxxxxx “People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup) _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
