From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EwJPo-0005lL-SQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:19:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0ADFxO5013713; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:15:59 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0ADDl9V006973 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:13:48 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so3576202nza for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:13:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KTT6Pyb1Mqv+CFbUV2eqXUKp+8daVXibVuiFyGDzBA55UqUm2XJyrQNjpPjO4xEVMSoi5E5656O11pOA/m4B8J6UbnpPKaxZOqAlQOI1NPUNkUrtSmyPBi2dkqcc0FseZcI6cMTiSLvvTcb6LdIH2LdJep2wBcBJREqK+jZXFS8= Received: by 10.36.34.12 with SMTP id h12mr116294nzh; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.247.80 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:13:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7babdf270601100513j3ebca1eam743c30af3cbfbaa3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:13:47 -0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cl=E1udio_Henrique?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS In-Reply-To: <7573e9640601090926s11cebbcendd4dd009bac4403f@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <7babdf270601090857w75cd06d6o88a0fee6e8e30c49@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640601090926s11cebbcendd4dd009bac4403f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k0ADDl9V006973 X-Archives-Salt: 4d1cf8f3-0548-4be1-aff3-74ea2ac8f6c1 X-Archives-Hash: dde6e1e465ffec011150456ce4a2d2ca On 1/9/06, Richard Fish wrote: > > > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? > > What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. > I mean updating my system (emerge -u world) once I put it on a cyphered partition. > > What if the > > data of some file gets corrupted, will I loose the whole HD? > > Encryption is done in (4k?) blocks, so you should only lose the > corrupted block. As to whether you lose a single file or the whole > filesystem, that depends on the nature of the corruption and the > filesystem. This is no different than having a corrupted hard drive. > > -Richard > Interesting. I was worried if the algorithm would make all the blocks dependents on each other. So, if I loose onde block, I'd be loosing all the others. What about the performance, is it too different from plain partition usage? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list