[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#430158: Bug#430158: Bug#430158: closed by Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org> (closing because of inactivity)

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Jonas,

> At testing your patch I realized that $tries in initramfs is not used
> like it is in the normal initscript. Instead, the default cryptsetup
> (with three tries) is invoked $tries times. So if you give tries=5 in
> /etc/crypttab, you have 3*5=15 tries in the initramfs.

Ah. I think I objected that in one of my previous mails while still not
correctly fixing it.

> I don't know whether it is wise to use one and the same option to
> crypttab for two different features. What about some ROOTTRIES option to
> the cryptroot conffile instead? David, could you comment on this?

To be honest: I don't really care as long as it is documented and
usable. Please just make it work.

Helmut