[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] cryptsetup-support for offsets

[Jonas Meurer]

On 19/10/2007 U Kuehn wrote:
> Hi,

Hey Ulrich,

> for a project I am doing I have to use the offset parameter of
> cryptsetup to store some information without having it on a filesystem.
> 
> While the binary supports this, the scripts in
> /lib/cryptsetup/crypto.functions do not. In order to have a offset=
> parameter in /etc/crypttab to automatically pass this parameter to
> cryptsetup, I added it to the parse_opts function. Diff attached,
> against version 1.0.5-1.
> 
> Could you please consider this for inclusion in future versions of the
> cryptsetup package?

Marc-Jano Knopp suggested the same in bug #446674
(http://bugs.debian.org/446674).

Support for skip and offset in crypttab will be added
within the next upload.

thanks,
 jonas