Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:50:53AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote > > Checkout[1] > > > > [1] > > http://alonbl.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gentoo/Linux_Disk_Encryption_Using_LoopAES_And_SmartCards > > Unfortunately, 90% of the wiki entry is irrelavant to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 05:34:52 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > 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

[gentoo-user] package download verification

2014-05-06 Thread James
So, Since (forever) I have manually checked the .Digest and such using openssl or gpg, not unlike what is in the gentoo handbook. This is retarded, and I'm too old to do that now, so I went shopping for some script/tool/code to do it for me. I sure that a sinlple script with diff would be suffici

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:50:53AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote > Checkout[1] > > [1] > http://alonbl.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gentoo/Linux_Disk_Encryption_Using_LoopAES_And_SmartCards Unfortunately, 90% of the wiki entry is irrelavant to my situation. It's aimed at encrypting the entire machine, and ma

[gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/06/2014 06:18 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > Hi all, > > I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs. From what I've seen, > it has become > increasingly stable; enough so that it is apparently supposed to become the > default FS on >

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 07 May 2014 06:56:12 +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy : > On 05/06/14 18:18, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs. From what I've > > seen, > > it has become increasingly stable; enough so that it is apparently supposed > > to > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread Marc Joliet
(FYI: your off-list forward of this email arrived at about the same time as this one (at about 22:20 CET), strangely enough.) Am Tue, 6 May 2014 18:13:07 + (UTC) schrieb James : > Marc Joliet gmx.de> writes: > > > > I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs. From what > > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 05/06/14 18:18, Marc Joliet wrote: > Hi all, > > I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs. From what I've seen, > it has become increasingly stable; enough so that it is apparently supposed to > become the default FS on OpenSuse in 13.2. > > I am motivated by various reasons: ..

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread Marc Joliet
OK, I read several articles (the LWN.net series from December/January [5] and a January article from ars technica [6]) and quite a lot of comments on btrfs today and can answer some of my questions myself. For completions sake, I also read a zdnet article series (starting at [7]), but it wasn't qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Checkout[1] [1] http://alonbl.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gentoo/Linux_Disk_Encryption_Using_LoopAES_And_SmartCards On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:31 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 wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread James
Marc Joliet gmx.de> writes: > I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs. From what > I've seen, it has become increasingly stable; enough so that it is > apparently supposed to > become the default FS on OpenSuse in 13.2. > I am motivated. > Greetings and thanks in advance for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
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 u

[gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
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 did manage to create /dev/mapper/control by running "dmsetup mknodes" manually, but still got error messages about being unable to initialize the encryption back

[gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi all, I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs. From what I've seen, it has become increasingly stable; enough so that it is apparently supposed to become the default FS on OpenSuse in 13.2. I am motivated by various reasons: - The experience of insignificant data loss after a r