Re: Encrypted Filesystem

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > 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?

Hmm, having md5's in indirect blocks would be very nice for detecting
cable problems ;-). That's usefull even without encryption.
								Pavel
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