Quoting Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting "Drexx Laggui [personal]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Or should I go with the fast(?) XFS? It's been said it's not suggested >> for an encrypted fs, but I really don't know yet. > > At FS3 we use XFS on top of LVM2 on top of dm-crypt, allowing us to > fully encrypt our laptops (except for /boot, which is unencrypted > ext3). Your statement above troubles me. Would you be able to share > links that provide negative feedback about encryption and XFS, so I can > investigate the issue further?
The negative suggestion seems to be when using stacked encryption like eCryptFS. Block-level encryption like dm-crypt is filesystem agnostic, with the filesystem being on top of the encryption, not the other way around, and is therefore much less problemmatic (if at all). My understanding is that block-level encryption is much simpler to implement, at the cost of a negative performance hit due to the entire system needing to go through the encryption/decryption process. We've been quite happy with the performance of our encrypted systems, though, if that feedback is worth anything. Cheers! -- Federico Sevilla III F S 3 Consulting Inc. http://www.fs3.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
