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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS on a block device > 2TB: will it work?
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To: Wolfgang Sailer <Wolfgang@Sailer.priv.at>
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On 01/02/2010 06:23 PM, Wolfgang Sailer wrote:
> Question: Will I be able to use a block device >2TB as the target of LUKS?

>From the kernel block device point of view, there is no difference
between MD, lvm2 or dm-crypt/LUKS device.
You can have stacked LUKS over LVM over MD device of size several TB, it works.
(LUKS just provides key management, there is no block device size limit hardcoded.)

Milan