Re: tool to account the written number of bytes to a block device (was: XTS cipher mode limitations)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



bwm-ng does it, so it must be possible. 
I think /proc/diskstats is the place to look.

Arno

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 02:56:52PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 
> Regarding this attacks involving snapshots and the total amount of data
> written to an encrypted volume.
> 
> Is there an easy way or perhaps even a working tool, which accounts the
> total amount of bytes written to a given block device (either directly
> or via something that is on top of that block device (filesystem or
> other block device layers)?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris.



> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt


-- 
Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx 
GnuPG:  ID: 1E25338F  FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C  0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F
----
Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans

If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of 
"news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier 
_______________________________________________
dm-crypt mailing list
dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx
http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt


[Index of Archives]     [Device Mapper Devel]     [Fedora Desktop]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux