[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#432150: Bug#432150: /sbin/cryptsetup: repair tools needed

[Jonas Meurer]

On 07/07/2007 gambarimasu+reportbug at gmail.com wrote:
> dm-crypt has data corruption issues, and this includes the luks
> header.  a tool to repair the luks header so that you can run fsck on
> the fs would be useful.  it might be that most of the data are ok.
> 
> this could take the form of an fsck-like repair, or a similar
> partition's header to repair the header, or a luksRestore from a
> backed up luksDump.  i'm sure there are issues with each of these, but
> it seems likely that *something* can be done.  there was brief
> discussion on the dm-crypt mailing list about how to repair luks
> headers and that might be a place to start.

Could you point us to more documentation regarding the data corruption
issues? I found your report at the dm-crypt mailing list, but not any
suggestions about how to repair headers.

Maybe you even have some code to start from.

greetings,
 jonas