On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:32, Sandra Schlichting <littlesandra88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > According to [0] ZFS does encryption: > > One exception to this is the encryption support being added to the ZFS > filesystem. Filesystem metadata such as filenames, ownership, ACLs, > extended attributes are all stored encrypted on disk. The ZFS metadata > about the storage pool is still stored in the clear so it is possible > to determine how many filesystems (datasets) are available in the pool > and even which ones are encrypted but not what the content of the > stored files or directories are. How is this advantageous over dmcrypt-LUKS? LUKS has always been supported between the block device and a btrfs filesystem, and would not even let an attacker discern what type of file-system was in use. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
