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

[U Kuehn]

Hi Jonas,

Jonas Meurer wrote:
>> 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.
> 

That's good news, thanks!

Cheers,
Ulrich