On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 03:49 +0000, Paul Schulz wrote: > (How is the Isle of the Long White Cloud?)
It's fantastic! ;) (We actually use the Land of the Long White Cloud - there's a few islands that make up NZ.) > Are the encrypted disks separate? (ed. sdc,sdd?) > If so, you could run it in a hook script with just the drives you > want to partition. Using the '-D' option allows you to set the disks. Yes, they are different disks. Yeah, I guess I could do that. A little bit awkward, but certainly do-able. Cheers, Andrew > On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 at 10:43 Andrew Ruthven <and...@etc.gen.nz> > wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I'm happily creating encrypted file systems now, which is great, > > but > > I'd like to look forward to having to rebuild the system. The > > encrypted > > file systems are for data storage only. Ideally if we rebuild the > > server, the data storage disks would be left alone. > > > > I've run into three problems here: > > > > 1) preserve for LUKS isn't supported. > > 2) preserve_always requires the disks to already be configured and > > won't change them. > > 3) preserve_reinstall requires you to set a class for the first > > build. > > > > To resolve 1, ideally setup-storage would honour preserve flags and > > let > > me worry about the crypt files etc. > > > > But the behaviour with 2 & 3 are a problem. Ideally we'd have > > lazyformat back. ;) I don't want to have to set any classes for > > the > > first build, or modify the disk_config for future builds. > > > > I could potentially have a class file that looks to see if a > > partition > > exists on the first hard drive, and if it doesn't exist, set the > > INITIAL class. But that seems a bit brittle to me. > > > > How are others handling that situation? > > > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > > > -- > > Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand > > and...@etc.gen.nz | linux.conf.au 2017, Hobart, AU > > New Zealand's only Cloud: | The Future of Open Source > > https://catalyst.net.nz/cloud | http://linux.conf.au > > > > > > > > -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand and...@etc.gen.nz | linux.conf.au 2017, Hobart, AU New Zealand's only Cloud: | The Future of Open Source https://catalyst.net.nz/cloud | http://linux.conf.au
