Hi,
I was trying to configure kernel dumping (on a Fedora 25 machine). In
this case the installation is encrypted using LUKS so to make things
work I decided to dump to /boot instead.
Now, I do understand prompting for the LUKS password if the dump path
is on an encrypted device (which mkdumprd helpfully warns about).
But I don't see why dumping to e.g. an unencrypted partition like /boot
instead (or through ssh) should even try to open any LUKS devices.
There is no warning generated in that case but I still get a prompt for
the password and dumping will only proceed afterwards.
This seems odd. Mounting anything other than the dump location should
not be necessary for the dumping processes. So the LUKS device should
not be opened in this particular case. It should only happen if the
user selected an encrypted volume as the dump target.
Benjamin
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