Re: [PATCH} Add RAID devices.

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello!

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:43:58PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Cool!  Is it possible to use them in combination?  Using the example
> From the documentation, would it possible to use LUKS to create an
> encrypted /dev/mapper/home which uses /dev/md0 instead of /dev/sda3?

unfortunately not. This is an area where some work should be invested.
It would require to do things properly in order also. LVM support also
comes to mind. I think these devices can be staged in an arbitrarily
complex way, no? Encrypting a RAID device, or creating a RAID device
from encrypted partitions, for instance (of which the former sounds more
reasonable to me).

> I understand that in Linux, the device file names (e.g., /dev/sda3) can
> sometimes change unexpectedly.  If they change later on, will anything
> bad happen?

Yes, the RAID could not be assembled, and then the machine could not boot
up. But I have never experienced this kind of problem for hard disks.

> Does the code in this gexp get invoked every time the system starts up?
> Why is a loop better here than an error?

Yes. An error is too harsh: When I tried things out, my RAID assembling
was (tried to be) carried out before the hard disks were visible, so this
failed. Waiting a little solved the problem.

Andreas