[gentoo-user] Re: dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

[Jack Byer]

Florian Philipp wrote:

> Another thing you can think of is whether you want encryption. I've done
> this for my laptop. The usual setup would by md->lvm->crypt. I've done
> it crypt->lvm (an LVM physical volume on top of an encrypted partition).
> This way, I only need to enter the password once. You can enforce a
> specific order between lvm, md and dmcrypt by putting stuff like this in
> /etc/rc.conf:
> rc_dmcrypt_before="lvm"
> rc_dmcrypt_after="udev"

I like to use whole disk encryption so I'll format each drive with LUKS and 
then use Dracut for an initramfs when I boot so that it takes care of 
setting up dmcrypt/lvm/md before OpenRC ever starts up.