Re: [gentoo-user] Fileserver with Raid + Crypto + BtrFS

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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On Wednesday 11 November 2015 23:08:44 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:18:15 +0100, Ralf wrote:
>> And thinking about btrfs snapshot feature, using some 'btrfs history
>> tool', i would probably only be able to see a lot of crypto garbage when
>> going through my history (which can for sure be accessed by ecryptfs,
>> but not by standard btrfs tools).
>
>That's a good point, you'd need to mount each snapshot before you could
>read it.
>
>I *really* wish btrfs had its own encryption, but I suspect this would be
>far from trivia to implement.

From a presentation [0] earlier this year I understand that Chris Mason really 
wants it, too, but has something else he wanted to finish first (I don't 
remember what, though).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QRWUfBua8

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