On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 21:51:34 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote: [...] > >http://zork.net/~nick/mail/why-reiserfs-is-teh-sukc > > > >And new technologies may change this---not just SSDs, but modern > >high-capacity drives that must rewrite many, many sectors to write > >one. (Yes, I know this also argues that those headers should be > >far away from each other. So be it. If such scattered headers > >don't prevent resizing, I don't care. Except maybe for secure wipe.) > > Well, if we talk about SMR, small changes will be written to the > random IO section of the drive and merged later. With those drives > you'll probably never know if there's parts of the old header > lingering around someplace else. Just as with SSDs and hybrid drives. On these, the LUKS key-management features potentially lose the secure key-slot deletion property. We cannot really fix that, we can only warn of it. Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato 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
