From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E51F34A.55A8CF23@silicide.dk> From: Jon Bendtsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] encryption in LVM2 References: <3E510115.C2FF3B83@silicide.dk> <20030217203406.GA6846@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Tue Feb 18 02:48:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote: > > On Monday, 17 February 2003, at 16:34:45 +0100, > Jon Bendtsen wrote: > > > I only have experience with LVM1, but naturaly i've heard about LVM2, > > and the device mapper. > > Has anyone built in encryption into the device mapper ? > > Is anyone working on it ? > > > I don't know of anyone working on block-based encryption for LVM2/DM, > but by now you can try one of the several filesystem-level encryption > solutions out there. I have personally used loop-aes, it is simple to > set up and works ok on my boxes. been there, done that. The problem is that then i cant use the snapshot facility while the stuff is mounted, and i cant resize it while it is mounted. I'd like that feature. Okay, i could just encrypt the partition(s) below LVM, but that is troubled too, as i might not want to encrypt all my LV's, and either i might have to start severel loopback devices. And as for loop-aes... no thanks, i cant even change my password. > Hope it helps. not really. JonB