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Re: [PLUG] Laptop recovery--useful data to collect?--A tangent
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On 07/14/2010 10:07 PM, Richard Freeman wrote:
On 07/14/2010 08:59 PM, Lee Marzke wrote:
Well for Ubuntu 10.04, you just boot from the CD rescue partition, and
then open the encrypted LVM, and fsck the disk. You may have to manually
search for the proper lvm device names ( lvscan, lvmdiskscan, vgscan,
etc )
How robust is LVM with encryption? Is the amount of data lost during
a power failure comparable to not using encryption? I imagine that it
must encrypt each block separately, so that if there is some kind of
interruption you only lose one block of disk.
I've used ext3 ( now ext4 ) on encrypted LVM (Ubuntu) for almost 4
years now on my laptop with no issues.
Ocassionally a hang due to sleep/hibernate failures typically get
fsck'ed automatically ( for /home )
and only one time did I have to boot the install CD to manually fsck / )
That would be my main concern with it - if you can simply manually
create the devices and fsck everything that isn't too big a deal. I
just don't want one byte lost to result in half the drive getting
scrambled.
I imagine that the concern with scrambling the disk is possible only
during writes of disk meta-data, and
with ext3 / ext4 that should be journaled. Otherwise only the file
being written at the time would be subject
to corruption.
That seems to be my experience as well, I don't recall any issues after
forcing a fsck.
Using a COW filesystem with built-in encryption would probably be a
good move as well. You essentially get data=writeback on such a
filesystem for free, which would probably help mitigate problems
caused by errors at lower layers.
Rich
Lee
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