[arch-dev-public] Rewriting crypto support in initscripts

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 14:09, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> I keep getting many init feature requests for more fancy and cool features
> in crypttab. Now, the crypttab file format is unflexible and extending it
> makes the code pretty much unreadable an unmaintainable.
>
> This is what I am planning:
> - Rewrite crypto support in initscripts, with a new configuration scheme
> (our normal sourced bash-files) - adding all the features from feature
> requests on the bugtracker.
>
> - crypto support will be in a function outside of rc.sysinit for more
> readability - that function will be POSIX sh compatible (see below)
>
> - Add a compatibility layer that converts crypttab entries into the new
> scheme at runtime so crypttab will still work, but will be deprecated.
>
> - Add the optional possibility to also configure the root device like this,
> so mkinitcpio will add a config file to the initramfs and use the same code,
> making crypto configuration more straight-forward. The cryptdevice= logic on
> the kernel command line will override such a configuration and won't be
> deprecated.
>
> I am in the stage of designing the configuration layout, you'll see patches
> in git soon.

Sounds good.
Sing me up as alpha-tester.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)