[Question] Luks container mounted on multiple devices via network

[Question] Luks container mounted on multiple devices via network

[Fernando]

I have a 50GB container stored on a NAS I've been using for more than
a year. Today, I needed to mount this container on multiple devices
(Debian, Kali and WSL), and I had no problems, until I noticed that
the files transferred from DEBIAN to the container were not displayed
on KALI and WSL. I unmounted the container on all devices and
remounted. The files are there, but I can only see it on the device
that saved the files. All devices are using the same version of
cryptsetup.

Is that normal? Am I missing something?
I'm backing up all the files, and I noticed no damage to the files.

Re: [Question] Luks container mounted on multiple devices via network

[Arno Wagner]

Hi Fernando,

you very likelt do not have a LUKS problem. As long as you 
can see anything in the LUKS container, LUKS is doing its job.

What I think may be the problem here is some file-system
incompatibility, like extended attributes on Debian or the
like. You may want to look at the mount-option each system uses.
I cannot really help you more, I have never run into this
type of problem.

Arno

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 23:27:20 CEST, Fernando wrote:
> I have a 50GB container stored on a NAS I've been using for more than
> a year. Today, I needed to mount this container on multiple devices
> (Debian, Kali and WSL), and I had no problems, until I noticed that
> the files transferred from DEBIAN to the container were not displayed
> on KALI and WSL. I unmounted the container on all devices and
> remounted. The files are there, but I can only see it on the device
> that saved the files. All devices are using the same version of
> cryptsetup.
> 
> Is that normal? Am I missing something?
> I'm backing up all the files, and I noticed no damage to the files.

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