On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:17:46AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Furthermore, to allow users to specify a LUKS UUID as the ‘source’ of > their ‘mapped-device’ form, as in: > (mapped-device > (source (uuid "cb67fc72-0d54-4c88-9d4b-b225f30b0f44")) ;LUKS UUID > (target "root") > (type luks-device-mapping)) > we’d have to extend <mapped-device-kind> with a method to resolve UUIDs > (in this case, to map a UUID to a /dev node.)
I just read a bit of the cryptsetup manual; we do not need to do the resolution, in the above example we would have the line cryptomount -u cb67fc72-0d54-4c88-9d4b-b225f30b0f44 (as discussed previously; it works at least without the dashes, we can also try to keep the dashes). And then it should be possible to open the device with cryptsetup luksOpen UUID=cb67fc72-0d54-4c88-9d4b-b225f30b0f44 root This looks for the given uuid in /dev/disk/by-uuid. I wanted to give it a try with the installation image, but unfortunately it does not contain the directory /dev/disk. Andreas
