[linux-lvm] LVM and Truecrypt

[Sven Eschenberg]

Hi Gordon,

Is there any particular Reason, why a mainboard failure should result in 
massive data loss?
But you can be assured, that a disk failure in such a volume will most 
certainly result in massive dataloss, since the filesystem spans across 
all disks.
Is there any partuclar reason for using truecrypt?

Regards

-Sven

Gordon Fogus schrieb:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to create a 10TB network share (like a NAS share, but with 
> permission levels) on a dedicated GNU+Linux server to be used on a 
> Linux/Windows network.
> 
> I must use truecrypt for full drive encryption. 
> I need the disks to be independently mountable (no striping, parity bits 
> or files spanning across physical drives) (this is because I am afraid 
> of massive data loss from a mainboard failure.  If you can show me that 
> this fear is unfounded and that I would definitely be able to recover my 
> data after a mainboard failure, then I would not hesitate to use files 
> spanning across drives). 
> Most importantly, the combined space of the disks (10TB) must appear as 
> 10TB on the network, not 10 @ 1TB drives (if I were using 1TB drives, 
> for example). 
> Resonable continuous write speed is also a factor for me.
> It is essential that this drive space can be "mounted" (i.e., "mount 
> network drive") on a Windows machine.
> Different folders must be able to have different permissionn levels for 
> different users, similar to the permission levels available in Microsoft 
> shares (write new files/edit files/delete files/make new folders/delete 
> folders/etc.).  After someone connects to the file server, he must not 
> be able to access every file, only those specificly shared to him.
> 
> Can someone point me to info on using truecrypt with LVM? 
> 
> (I am new to GNU+Linux.  File serving on a Windows Active Directory 
> server is... unpredictable.)
> 
> Gordon
> 
> 
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