On Sunday, 20 October 2002, at 17:57:34 +0200, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > Not completely offtopic. > I hope so :) > Why are you using mount ?? > What I described is an encrypted filesystem over a plain-and-simple LV, and the procedure you could follow to take snapshots from this LV, which holds an encrypted filesystem, and make filesystem-level backups (such as those made with tar, cpio, rsync and others). At least in Debian, "losetup" comes with the "mount" package. > I'm talking about running LVM ontop of a encrypted loopback device, not > encrypting a lv. > Then maybe we are talking about different things here. I used an encrypted filesystem over an unencrypted LV but, as loop-aes needs the loop device to operate, I need to loop-mount the encrypted filesystem for the system to be able to on-the-fly decrypt its contents. Maybe I am confused, because I don't fully understand what you mean by "running LVM ontop of a encrypted loopback device". -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (Linux 2.4.19-pre6aa1) _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
