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Jarkko Sakkinen

Does anyone use dm-verity for anything? Looks almost like abaddonware.

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I was asked to ack/nack a patch for it and I've just read LWN article about it in 2011. Netflix contributed it but AFAIK as of today Netflix uses FreeBSD not Linux.
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@duanin2 unsurprisingly yet another merkle tree ;-) read-only except system update so make sense in that context...
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@duanin2 I acked the patch, since it uses verify_pkcs7_signature() correctly :-)
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@jarkko Yep. Deployed in various embedded systems.

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