Re: LVM spanning multiple encrypted drives

2010-05-17 Thread thib
B. Alexander wrote: I started looking in this direction myself last night. I am, for the life of me, unable to figure why or how drives are designated as early versus non-early. With the exception of adding "noearly" to the options in /etc/cryptab. However, I am unable to find a single partition

Re: LVM spanning multiple encrypted drives

2010-05-16 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:57 AM, B. Alexander wrote: > I use LUKS drive encryption on several machines on my network. The problem I > have is that every time I attempt to set up LVM which spans multiple drives, > it decrypts the first one, then panics because it can't see the rest of the what is

Re: LVM spanning multiple encrypted drives

2010-05-16 Thread deloptes
B. Alexander wrote: > I'm really not comfortable with modifying something like that, not because > I can't, but rather because I don't want to tweak something and have it > break on the next upgrade. So I will take the latter suggestion. I want to > build a test box to see if I can further trouble

Re: LVM spanning multiple encrypted drives

2010-05-16 Thread B. Alexander
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM, thib wrote: > ... > but consider encrypting the logical volume instead of the physical > volumes. It makes much more sense to me. > It seems to me that > Does anyone know the right way to get the drives decrypted first? >> > > The fun might take place in yo

Re: LVM spanning multiple encrypted drives

2010-05-16 Thread thib
B. Alexander wrote: [snip] The fix is probably simple, but I haven't found the right combination of secret sauce to get all drives decrypted before the system issues vgchange -a y, which results in a panic or other Bad Things. I'd say the design of your setup is the problem. Obviously, this d