Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fileserver with Raid + Crypto + BtrFS
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:02:05
Message-Id: 3398618.IUVla0c3Nh@thetick
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fileserver with Raid + Crypto + BtrFS by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 11 November 2015 23:08:44 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 >On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:18:15 +0100, Ralf wrote:
3 >> And thinking about btrfs snapshot feature, using some 'btrfs history
4 >> tool', i would probably only be able to see a lot of crypto garbage when
5 >> going through my history (which can for sure be accessed by ecryptfs,
6 >> but not by standard btrfs tools).
7 >
8 >That's a good point, you'd need to mount each snapshot before you could
9 >read it.
10 >
11 >I *really* wish btrfs had its own encryption, but I suspect this would be
12 >far from trivia to implement.
13
14 From a presentation [0] earlier this year I understand that Chris Mason really
15 wants it, too, but has something else he wanted to finish first (I don't
16 remember what, though).
17
18 [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QRWUfBua8
19
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21 Marc Joliet
22 --
23 "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
24 don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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