[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#358388: cryptsetup: luksformat does not support aligning on raid stripe boundaries

[David Härdeman]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:59:10PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>When creating a filesystem on a RAID it is of advantage to align it on
>stripewidth boundaries.  Unfortunately with LUKS the payload starts at a
>certain 4k boundary, which usually is not a stripe boundary so using for
>instance XFS's sunit and swidth options won't work as expected.
>
>This patch adds a new options --align-payload that allows you to specify
>the alignment you want on luksFormat.

This patch seems to have been merged upstream into 1.0.3 (final) 
already, so when a debian package is compiled based on that source, 
this bug should also be fixed...

Upstream changelog:
(2006/04/05)
Version 1.0.3
Changes:

    * alignPayload patch Peter Palfrader
    * meaningful exit codes and password retrying by Johannes Weißl

Re,
David