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On 1/9/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? |
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> What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. |
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I mean updating my system (emerge -u world) once I put it on a |
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cyphered partition. |
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> > What if the |
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> > data of some file gets corrupted, will I loose the whole HD? |
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> Encryption is done in (4k?) blocks, so you should only lose the |
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> corrupted block. As to whether you lose a single file or the whole |
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> filesystem, that depends on the nature of the corruption and the |
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> filesystem. This is no different than having a corrupted hard drive. |
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> -Richard |
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Interesting. I was worried if the algorithm would make all the blocks |
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dependents on each other. So, if I loose onde block, I'd be loosing |
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all the others. |
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What about the performance, is it too different from plain partition usage? |
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