Re: Pointers to mirroring partitions (w/ encryption?) help?

2016-06-04 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
04.06.2016 20:31, B. S. пишет: >>> >>> Yeah, when it comes to FDE, you either have to make your peace with >>> trusting the manufacturer, or you can't. If you are going to boot >>> your system with a traditional boot loader, an unencrypted partition >>> is mandatory. >> >> No, it is not with grub2

Re: Pointers to mirroring partitions (w/ encryption?) help?

2016-06-04 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
04.06.2016 22:05, Chris Murphy пишет: ... >> >> Yeah, when it comes to FDE, you either have to make your peace with >> trusting the manufacturer, or you can't. If you are going to boot your >> system with a traditional boot loader, an unencrypted partition is >> mandatory. > > /boot can be

Re: Pointers to mirroring partitions (w/ encryption?) help?

2016-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Justin Brown wrote: > Here's some thoughts: > >> Assume a CD sized (680MB) /boot > > Some distros carry patches for grub that allow booting from Btrfs Upstream GRUB has had Btrfs support for a long time. There's been no need for distros

Re: Pointers to mirroring partitions (w/ encryption?) help?

2016-06-04 Thread B. S.
On 06/04/2016 03:46 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: 04.06.2016 04:39, Justin Brown пишет: Here's some thoughts: Assume a CD sized (680MB) /boot Some distros carry patches for grub that allow booting from Btrfs, so no separate /boot file system is required. (Fedora does not; Ubuntu -- and

Re: Pointers to mirroring partitions (w/ encryption?) help?

2016-06-04 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
04.06.2016 04:39, Justin Brown пишет: > Here's some thoughts: > >> Assume a CD sized (680MB) /boot > > Some distros carry patches for grub that allow booting from Btrfs, > so no separate /boot file system is required. (Fedora does not; > Ubuntu -- and therefore probably all Debians -- does.) >

Re: Pointers to mirroring partitions (w/ encryption?) help?

2016-06-03 Thread B. S.
On 06/03/2016 09:39 PM, Justin Brown wrote: Here's some thoughts: Assume a CD sized (680MB) /boot Some distros carry patches for grub that allow booting from Btrfs, so no separate /boot file system is required. (Fedora does not; Ubuntu -- and therefore probably all Debians -- does.)

Re: Pointers to mirroring partitions (w/ encryption?) help?

2016-06-03 Thread Justin Brown
Here's some thoughts: > Assume a CD sized (680MB) /boot Some distros carry patches for grub that allow booting from Btrfs, so no separate /boot file system is required. (Fedora does not; Ubuntu -- and therefore probably all Debians -- does.) > perhaps a 200MB (?) sized EFI partition Way bigger