On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: > I would like to ask for feedback on a kernel level stacked cryptographic > filesystem. It has started as Summer Of Code'2009 project and matured a lot > since then. I've recently added support for sparse files and switched to XTS > encryption mode. > > I've been using it to encrypt my home directory for almost a year already, > and use fsx, dbench and blogbench for testing. So it should be fairly > stable. > > Tested on top of ZFS, UFS and tmpfs on amd64 and i386; both 9-CURRENT and > 8-STABLE supported. > > Please email me separately if you're willing to help testing on big endian > machine, XTS code doesn't look endian correct. > > At this point all of the project goals complete and I'd like it to get wider > coverage in terms of tests and reviews and hope to see it commited to HEAD > soon. I've got to ask a probably dumb question...how is this better then geli encrypted objects? I've used them for sometime with excellent results. Or does it provide functionality that geli does not? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman_at_es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751Received on Tue Sep 07 2010 - 15:57:40 UTC
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