My notes on making encrypted filesystems "Just Work(tm)"

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:47:53PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Finally, since the hal daemon understands the clear text block
> devices, /dev/dm-0 and onwards, provided by dm and hal must knows how to
> add hal device objects for these. Thus, if /dev/dm-0 is really the
> decrypted version of /dev/sda1 then hald must create a hal device object
> representing /dev/dm-0. This device object will be a sibling to the
> device object representing /dev/sda1 and will have the same storage
> device as a parent. 

The current code in hal for dm detection is really ugly imho. I think the right
way (tm) is to push the kernel people to put some more info in sysfs for dm
devices. (I'm currently playing with the code to see how i can do that).

And obviously i'm interested in your sesame code :), so lemme know if the starts
of it are available somewhere..

  Sjoerd
-- 
Entropy requires no maintenance.
		-- Markoff Chaney
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