From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DAFB713.A2E7FAB3@silicide.dk> From: Jon Bendtsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] creating a LVM ontop of a cryptated (ppdd) loop back device References: <3DAEDEE5.4540B954@silicide.dk> <20021017211217.GB4861@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Oct 18 02:24:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Jos=E9 Luis Domingo L=F3pez wrote: > = > On Thursday, 17 October 2002, at 18:01:41 +0200, > Jon Bendtsen wrote: > = > > I'm trying to cryptate my filesystems, and be able to take snapshots = of > > them. > > I cannot get a snapshot of a cryptated LV to work (maybe because it i= s > > readonly) > > > I haven't tried, but wouldn't it be possible to just take a snapshots > from a LV containing an encrypted filesystem, and then loop-mount it > (assuming encrypted via the loop device), give the password, and then > backup ? maybe, but i cant losetup it, possibly because snapshots are readonly. Further more i would like noninteraktive backup's. So, i _WANT_ to put LVM ontop of a encrypted filesystem. = > I think from the loop-aes type of filesystem encryption point of view. > But as I have said previously, I haven't tried if this works, although > if my understanding of all these things is OK, should work. i havent tried with loop-aes either, but with loop-ppdd, and ppdd didnt work. > I will try to test this setup tomorrow when I get to work :-) cool, me too :) JonB