Re: Encrypted Filesystem

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 20:06, Mark Borgerding wrote:

> Have you given any thought to journalling? fscking? Can directory 
> contents be encrypted?  If so, what does the dir look like to others 
> (e.g. backup utils)
> 
> Per-file signatures will severely affect random access performance.  
> Changing 1 byte in a 1 GB file would require the whole thing to be reread.

What about calculating signatures on a per-block basis instead?

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