Bug#358452: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#358452: initramfs cryptroot functionality

[Jonas Meurer]

On 30/04/2006 Riku Voipio wrote:
> The current svn version iof cryptsetup appears to parse /etc/crypttab 
> for the essential crypto modules. This does not work fo luks setups. 
> howabout using "cryptsetup status" ?

how about this from README.initramfs, also from the svn repository:

> 5. LUKS support
> ---------------
> If you are using the LUKS feature of cryptsetup, the above recipe should
> still work without any changes. However, you can then remove the cipher,
> size and hash arguments in /etc/crypttab as they will be automatically
> derived from the information stored in the luks header on-disk.

i don't know the initramfs implementation very well, David Härdeman has
done all the work. but at least the documentation sounds like exactly
what you suggested is already done.

...
 jonas