| Summary: | Awkward reaction to loopback encrypted filesystems | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mark Stoneburner <markdoe7> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-09-21 20:37:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
We don't currently support using the crypto loop stuff in the userspace tools, so this is a little tricky to handle. I'll try to add something to do a little better, but the current case might be the best that's possible until we integrate crypto loop support for the distro. Cryptoloop has been replaced with dm-crypt. This bug is very old. Is this still relevant? Does anaconda complain about dm-crypt filesystems? This isn't really relevant anymore now that cryptoloop is obsoleted. We don't really handle dm-crypt, but the reaction should be better |
My /home is encrypted so that I mount it through AES loopback. It is mentioned in /etc/fstab in normal manner. My swap is similarly encrypted. Redhat installer assumed the filesystem is messed up, and aborted the installer. Everything worked fine when uncommented /home and swap partitions from fstab. I realize this is not an ordinary situation, but instead of simply aborting the installation when weird looking filesystem contents are encountered, it'd be nice if the installer either - offered to ignore that filesystem in the installation, or - told the user to uncomment the filesystems from /etc/fstab if wants the installer to ignore them The relevant lines in my /etc/fstab are: /dev/hdd3 /home ext3 defaults,loop=/dev/loop1,encryption=AES128 0 0 /dev/hdd4 swap swap sw,loop=/dev/loop6,encryption=AES192 0 0