[Pkg-ltsp-devel] opinions on swap patches

Vagrant Cascadian vagrant at freegeek.org
Fri Oct 13 17:30:47 UTC 2006


i have some patches which allow for encrypted local and network swap
using cryptsetup:

http://llama.freegeek.org/~vagrant/bzr/ltsp/features/vagrant-ltsp-swap

advantages:
* swap is available sooner
* possible to encrypt swap space

disadvantages:
* re-implements some functionality of nbd-client's init.d script

long-term, hopefully we can work with the nbd-client/nbd-server
maintainer to improve support for what we want.

i'd like to include these patches in etch, as the security implications
of totally unencrypted network swap are ugly.

live well,
  vagrant



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