I'm using systemd-homed to manage my Linux home directory. By default, it stores the home directory in an encrypted BTRFS file system using LUKS, which is stored as a file in the underlying file system. Unfortunately, it takes a very long time to unmount when I shut down or reboot the machine. I found a bug report for this, and associated changes that were committed to systemd.
If the next version of systemd (recently released as version 256, and probably coming to Arch Linux soon) doesn't solve it, I'll have to investigate further. Perhaps I should encrypt the entire Linux file system and store the key in the TPM.
I don't want to have to type a password to decrypt the storage during the boot process, as I wouldn't have access to braille or speech output at that point.
#Linux #systemd #accessibility
Jason J.G. White /
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2024-06-17 13:39:56
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