>>>>> "david" == David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes: david> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 16:34, Erik Mouw wrote: >> > Actually i want to convert ext2 to into a encryped file system. >> > for this purpose i want to do that, >> >> I already explained you that for security reasons this functionality >> should be in the block layer, not in the filesystem layer. david> Why? If you do it at the filesystem layer you: a- leave the filesystem structure (i.e. names) unencrypted b- you just don't care if you are not able to recover things at fsck time :( c- you are really clever and finds a way to encrypt all the filesystem and recovering from a crash Apart from that, doing it at the block layer should be much, much easier :) Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
