On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:10 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > 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? > LUKS devices with no encryption > > 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. > How is it more or less dangerous than the existing RAID exception it adds to? LUKS-managed disks require activation to be mountable, just as RAID do. Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@xxxxxxxxxx
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