On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Carlo Nyto <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's great to see that encrypted filesystems on Linux are finally > coming to maturity. > > But with RHEL5.3's support for encrypted block devices, I don't see > any explanation about how to mount the filesystem later, rather than > interrupting the bootup before networking even starts. Since it's > primarily intended as a server OS, this seriously impacts the > usability of this feature. > > Is this supported at all? > > It also encourages leaving encrypted filesystems mounted full-time, > which is a reasonable security model for a laptop, but often the > benefit of an encrypted filesystem on a server is realized by > unmounting it (well and removing the plaintext device) when not in > use. also beware, LVMs cannot be resized yet. I have noticed resize2fs can't do anything with an encrypted fs. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517759 If anyone knows a work around, please let me know, i'm still looking into this problem..
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