Hi Scott,
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:14:24PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Crypto devices may sometimes have multiple additional prober matches,
do you have any example?
It seems like a workaround for disks with old signatures.
> however just like RAID, there's no danger of activating the wrong one
> since special help is needed to activate the block device before it
> can be used.
We already have experience (with luks and swap) when users lost data
because there was more valid signatures on the disk. (Currently,
cryptosetup and mkswap should be fixed.)
From my point of view this your request is dangerous.
Karel
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