nash vs. bash

[Russell Coker]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:14, "W. Michael Petullo" <mike at flyn.org> wrote:
> Have you seen "[Bug 124789] [PATCH] Add encrypted root filesystem?"
> I have been working on a patch for mkinitrd that adds support for
> encrypted root filesystems.  It doesn't look like it will get into FC3,
> but FC4 may be a possibility.

There was never a chance of FC3, the serious work started after the feature 
freeze.

As for FC4, at the current rate we will hopefully have the infrastructure 
working, support for mounting other file systems with encryption, encrypted 
swap, and cryptsetup that can run conveniently from an initrd.

Getting the mkinitrd script to do the right thing will be difficult.  Getting 
anaconda to support installing to such file systems will be a significant 
issue.

I don't expect FC4 to have anaconda support for crypto-root, there are too 
many pre-requisites and the work is non-trivial.  If everything else has the 
features needed to allow the end-user to convert a system to crypto-root 
after installation of FC4 then I'll be reasonably happy.

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