On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:13:53 +0100 Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:03:03 -0600 > schrieb Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Reiser 3.6 is considered feature-complete I think, so only bugfixes > > are released. It was the default on SuSE until SLES 10 and is still > > maintained. > > ReiserFS 3.6 is fast on a new system, but gets extremely slow after a > few years. That was at least my experience and the reason for switching > to ext3 which is after a few years now still as fast as at the > beginning. It slows down as the partition fills up, no? That's why I used it on /var only since the used disk space doesn't really fluctuate. > > > Cool :) I used LUKS but then figured it's not worth it. Because only > > several important file really need encryption, I ended up with plain > > gpg. > > With GnuPG you have to explicitly decrypt the single files every time > you want to access the file. With LUKS this happens transparently, and > you can encrypt the whole system so that nobody can see what's on your > harddisk except for the kernel, the initrd and the bootloader of > course. So there are use cases for both LUKS and GnuPG depending on > your needs or wishes. I know. My sensitive data is localized, and I don't care to encrypt /usr/bin/firefox. If transparency is needed, I would go with ubuntu's ecryptfs. It's simpler, but of course requires FS to be supported by linux. Not to say that full disk encryption isn't usefull... > > Heiko -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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