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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 17:34:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140506213452.GA30163@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15054377.ZrtTjlGeGV@andromeda>

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:45:01PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote
> On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 02:31:08 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   I'm trying to set up USB-key-encryption for use with a laptop.  I'm
> > running mdev instead of udev on the laptop, so lvm doesn't work.
> 
> I find this strange, as LVM can manage the /dev-entries directly.
> On my systems, this is necessary as udev regularly fails to properly handle 
> these entries.
> 
> Eg. the following setting: " verify_udev_operations = 1 "
> There are other options for udev documented in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.

  Unfortunately, mdev != udev.  People running RAID have problems too.


> I believe " cryptsetup " does not use the LVM tools. But has a new device 
> created by the kernel directly, which should be picked up by a device manager 
> directly.

  But cryptsetup pulls in lvm2 as a dependancy...

[d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv cryptsetup

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.103  USE="readline (-clvm) (-cman) -lvm1 -lvm2create_initrd (-selinux) -static -static-libs -thin -udev" 1,313 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.6.2  USE="openssl -gcrypt -kernel -nettle -nls -python -reencrypt -static -static-libs -udev -urandom" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python2_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 1,162 kB

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06 18:31 [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes Walter Dnes
2014-05-06 18:45 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-05-06 21:34   ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2014-05-07  6:11     ` J. Roeleveld
2014-05-07 18:11       ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Running cryptsetup under mdev Walter Dnes
2014-05-07 18:57         ` J. Roeleveld
2014-05-08 10:36           ` Andrew Savchenko
2014-05-12  6:51             ` J. Roeleveld
2014-05-12  7:21           ` Matti Nykyri
2014-05-12  7:24           ` Matti Nykyri
2014-05-06 21:50 ` [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes Alon Bar-Lev
2014-05-07  4:36   ` Walter Dnes
2014-05-07  6:48     ` Alon Bar-Lev

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