Hello SuSE folkz, I'm going to setup a secure file server. If somebody tries to mount secure filesystem without permission all attempts should fail. In the situation then hard drive is taken from the server all attempts to mirror the hard drive with secure filesystem should fail as well or at least nobody can reach and read that replicated data. Could somebody advise me please what secure filesystem is available for this task or in what direction I should look. Any advises or sources of information are greatly appreciated.
Alex
Alex, I don't know of any Linux secure filesystems, but there is a technique to make any Linux Filesystem secure. You create a layered approach like the below: physical disk | Loopback device with encryption | File System As you can see the encryption logic sits between the File System and Physical DIsk. Using this approach you get physical media that contains only encrypted data, but the filesystem sees it as unencrypted. There was a thread about doing something similar with LVM in the mix in the LVM mailing list last month. http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2002-October/012541.html I doubt if you can re-use the exact details, but maybe seeing what commands they used will get you started. Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com