[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#538221: [codesite-noreply at google.com: Issue 34 in cryptsetup: Command failed: device-mapper: create ioctl failed: Device or resource busy]

[Jonas Meurer]

On 27/08/2009 Stuart Pook wrote:
> On 27/08/09 01:59, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> >>>do you have any further information about the bug?
> 
> I suppose that I should ask ... am I allowed to do what I'm doing:
> create a lvm snapshot of a partition, luksOpen the partition, luksOpen
> the snapshot, and mount them both read-write?

please see the answer i just wrote to you: luksOpen the snapshot will
fail, but you can force cryptsetup to luksOpen the snapshot with
--non-exclusive. that has security implications, but i guess that
luksOpen with --readonly should be safe.

greetings,
 jonas
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