On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 at 2:30pm, Whit Blauvelt wrote > This may be crazy, but has anyone used filesystem encryption (e.g. LUX) > under Gluster? Or integrated encryption with Gluster in some other way? > > There's a certain demand to encrypt some of our storage, in case the > hypothetical bad guy breaks into the server room and walks out with the > servers. Is this a case where we can have encryption's advantages _or_ > Gluster's? Or is there a practical way to have both? I haven't, but given that Gluster runs on top of a standard FS, I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work. Rather than just Gluster on top of ext3/4/XFS, it would be Gluster on top of ext3/4/XFS on top of an LUKS encrypted partition. The main stumbling block I see isn't Gluster related at all, it's simply how to do an unattended boot of a system with an encrypted partition... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF
