[Bradford] One Time File Systems on Linux

[Robert Burrell Donkin]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Alice Kaerast <alice at kaerast.info> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd certainly be interested in hearing about this and how it compares
> to the encrypted LVM partitions that many distro installation CDs have
> been offering for a while now, as well as the encrypted home
> directories that Ubuntu offers.

See below my rant^H^H^H^H strongly held personal opinions about encrypted LVM

Anyway, I have a good use case for encrypted LVM which I've been
putting off for the last 6 months. Once I've cut a couple of releases,
I'll be out of excuses. So maybe I'll be able to share my experience
in May...

Robert

After spending three days of initrd debugging hell after a Debian
update completed stuffed one of my systems a few years ago, I am yet
to overcome my pathological  rage-filled hatred of the phrase
"encrypted LVM". And, yes, I felt compelled to abuse my blog to flame
the idiot Debian maintainer who claimed that since I was the only user
to have reported the bug in his untested, poorly coded scripts (which
took me 3 days to find and fix), he wasn't going to bother applying my
patch since no one else could possibly be running this configuration.
(This, of course, was almost certainly true - no one else could
possibly have been foolish enough to spend 3 days hacking his rubbish
code to make their machine run again. I'm sure they either smashed
their hard disc, took a long walk off a short pier or retired to
contemplate the mysteries of the universe...)