From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from v6.tansi.org (ns.km31936-01.keymachine.de [87.118.116.4]) by mail.server123.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:07:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (77-57-44-24.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.57.44.24]) by v6.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D0C2C20DC1E9 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:07:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:07:32 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20140916080732.GA11351@tansi.org> References: <20140916063945.GA10655@fritha.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140916063945.GA10655@fritha.org> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] KISS (was disappearing luks header and other mysteries) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de 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 -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier