From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] KISS (was disappearing luks header and other mysteries)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:07:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140916080732.GA11351@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140916063945.GA10655@fritha.org>
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:39:45 CEST, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 16.09.2014, Boylan, Ross wrote:
>
> > 1. Partition
> > 2. RAID
> > 3. LVM
> > 4. LUKS
>
> > That is decidedly too many. KISS is not even in the building
> > anymore with that.
>
> It is. Every single process does one thing. The problem is that most
> of the distributions out there automatically install LVM. In my case,
> I always chose four primary partitions manually, because they fit my
> needs and are simple to manage, while not adding more complexity than
> neccessary (/, /boot, /home, swap).
The primary indicator that it is too complex is that debugging
this fails. There is siome modern "engineering" faction that
likes to pile up complexity until things start to fail. This is
a symptom.
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-16 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-16 0:53 [dm-crypt] KISS (was disappearing luks header and other mysteries) Boylan, Ross
2014-09-16 6:39 ` Heinz Diehl
2014-09-16 8:07 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2014-09-20 0:29 ` Sven Eschenberg
2014-09-21 9:58 ` Arno Wagner
2014-09-21 14:29 ` Marc Ballarin
2014-09-21 15:38 ` Sven Eschenberg
2014-09-22 9:14 ` Arno Wagner
2014-09-21 14:51 ` Sven Eschenberg
2014-09-22 9:41 ` Arno Wagner
2014-09-22 18:52 ` Sven Eschenberg
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