So, probably everyone has already read the news about ext4 fs-level encryption for Linux 4.1. Out of curiosity (and because I'm a potential target audience for that), what are the thoughts of openSUSE team and are there any plans on introducing support for this into the installer in following releases?
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Stanislav Baiduzhyi baiduzhyi.devel@gmail.com wrote:
So, probably everyone has already read the news about ext4 fs-level encryption for Linux 4.1. Out of curiosity (and because I'm a potential target audience for that), what are the thoughts of openSUSE team and are there any plans on introducing support for this into the installer in following releases?
Personally I'd rather see better support for using ecryptfs, much like in Ubuntu, for data and home directories. The layered file system is a 'cleaner' approach IMO, no need to remember to resize the device, you're not forced into a fixed size/ungrowable home dir which is the current mechanism.
-- Later, Darin
On Wednesday 22 April 2015 12:08:22 Darin Perusich wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Stanislav Baiduzhyi
baiduzhyi.devel@gmail.com wrote:
So, probably everyone has already read the news about ext4 fs-level encryption for Linux 4.1. Out of curiosity (and because I'm a potential target audience for that), what are the thoughts of openSUSE team and are there any plans on introducing support for this into the installer in following releases?
Personally I'd rather see better support for using ecryptfs, much like in Ubuntu, for data and home directories. The layered file system is a 'cleaner' approach IMO, no need to remember to resize the device, you're not forced into a fixed size/ungrowable home dir which is the current mechanism.
Well, they promise much better performance and they are saying that encryption will be directory-based (unless I'm wrong). Plus they say that main guy behind ecryptfs is the lead on the project. So this time I expect improvement, instead of just "doing things differently" as it is often the case.
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On 2015-04-21 13:11, Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote:
So, probably everyone has already read the news about ext4 fs-level encryption for Linux 4.1.
I haven't.
Care to share a link? :-)
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Carlos E. R.
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В Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:17:03 +0200 "Carlos E. R." robin.listas@telefonica.net пишет:
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On 2015-04-21 13:11, Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote:
So, probably everyone has already read the news about ext4 fs-level encryption for Linux 4.1.
I haven't.
Care to share a link? :-)
http://lwn.net/Articles/638985/
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On 2015-04-22 18:47, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
В Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:17:03 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> пишет:
On 2015-04-21 13:11, Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote:
So, probably everyone has already read the news about ext4 fs-level encryption for Linux 4.1.
I haven't.
Care to share a link? :-)
Thanks. Very interesting feature.
The article says they are trying to make it into kernel 4.1, but some think that is too early. I don't see this getting into yast for a year or two... just a wild guess.
- -- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith))
On 04/22/2015 06:25 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2015-04-22 18:47, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
В Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:17:03 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> пишет:
On 2015-04-21 13:11, Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote:
So, probably everyone has already read the news about ext4 fs-level encryption for Linux 4.1.
I haven't.
Care to share a link? :-)
Thanks. Very interesting feature.
The article says they are trying to make it into kernel 4.1, but some think that is too early. I don't see this getting into yast for a year or two... just a wild guess.
As for the kernel, the 4.0-git patches that I pulled yesterday had ext4 encryption. It will definitely be in the 4.1 kernel.
Larry
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net wrote:
As for the kernel, the 4.0-git patches that I pulled yesterday had ext4 encryption. It will definitely be in the 4.1 kernel.
yup, merge 6162e4b0bedeb3dac2ba0a5e1b1f56db107d97ec upstream
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