Demand for LUKS password blocks boot

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:32:51 +0800
Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> What happens if you normally want a particular uuid to be activated on
> boot...but there is a power fail and restore at 3am?  Wouldn't you
> still be stuck with a system waiting for the password when what you
> may want would be for the system to come up without that device?
> Wouldn't a rd_LUKS_timeout=<X seconds> make sense?

You could provide patches or the suggestion to the dracut developers. 

I think this option would be good in the case you mention. 

kevin
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