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by luzifer42 959 days ago
DragonflyBSD is one of the few BSD distributions which support device-mapper. https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=dm_target_crypt&sectio...

Quite useful to mount PS3 disks, to recover old savegames ;) https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Mounting_HDD_on_PC

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Interesting,

"The device-mapper disk driver first appeared in NetBSD 6.0. It was then brought into DragonFly 2.7 by Alex Hornung." [0][1]

Don't know about NetBSD and Crypto-DM, but

"DragonFly has a device mapper target called dm_target_crypt(4) (compatible with Linux's dm-crypt) that provides transparent disk encryption. It makes best use of available cryptographic hardware, as well as multi-processor software crypto.

DragonFly fully supports LUKS (cryptsetup(8)) and TrueCrypt as disk encryption methods. tcplay(8), is a free (BSD-licensed) 100% compatible TrueCrypt implementation built on dm_target_crypt(4)." [2]

[0] https://man.netbsd.org/dm.4 [1] https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=dm&section=4 [2] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/#index6h2