On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Filip Bystricky <filipbystri...@google.com> wrote: > Dear btrfs maintainers, > Google is evaluating btrfs for its potential use in android, but > currently the lack of native file-based encryption unfortunately makes > it a nonstarter. According to the FAQ (specifically the answer to > "Does btrfs support encryption"), nobody is currently working on this. > How up-to-date is that answer, and are there any new plans to add > native FBE in the future?
The ext4 and f2fs encryption implementations were moved to the VFS, so in theory it can be used for XFS and Btrfs. A usability gotcha that probably is manageable on Android is dealing with inheritance of encryption when making snapshots, and dealing with reflinks. https://lwn.net/Articles/677620/ -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
