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Re: Bug#397872: debian-installer: Encryption on top of software RAID broken in daily build



On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 09:09 +0100, David Härdeman wrote:
> On Fri, November 10, 2006 8:25, Miroslav Kure said:
> > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:47:25PM -0500, Mike Paul wrote:
> >> Problem description:
> >>
> >>   The partitioner treats the resulting encrypted volume like a raw hard
> >>   drive -- it wants to put a partition table on it, and there's no way
> >>   to use it directly as e.g. swapspace or a physical volume for LVM.
> >
> > Seems like a duplicate of #393728
> 
> Indeed, and fixing it would probably require major surgery to partman-md
> so that it doesn't wipe and recreate its state each time partman restarts.
> 
> Perhaps we need to disable crypto-on-md for Etch...(as Max said in #393728)

Oops, yes, it's a duplicate.  I didn't realize partman-crypto is a
separate package, or I'd have checked its existing bug reports.

Crypto-on-md works correctly in beta3 though...  how could it have
gotten into a state where major surgery is needed to get it back?  :-/
-- 
Mike Paul <mike@wyzardry.net>

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