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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: [dm-crypt] Is removing a HDD after umount, without remove, considered safe?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:14:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120206141408.GA29217@citd.de> (raw)

Hi


I want to integrate a dm-crypted USB-HDD with autofs.

The first part of setting up dm-crypt can be put into udev, so that the 
dm-crypt-device is setup immediatly after plugging in the HDD, which in 
turn can then be used with autofs.

So my question is: Is it safe to unplug the HDD after the filesystem is 
umounted, but with the dm-crypt-device still in existance?
(IOW: Are all dirty blocks immediately written to the HDD (at least at 
umount-time), or can there be something still buffered in the dm-crypt 
device?)





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                 reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06 14:23 UTC|newest]

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