Re: partially encrypted filesystem

[phillip]

dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:20 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> > Considering that Jffs2 is the only writeable compressed filesystem, yes. 
> >   What should be borne in mind is compressed filesystems never expect 
> > the data after compression to be bigger than the original data.
> 
> In fact that assumption is fairly trivial to remove, if you can put an
> upper bound on the growth. Adding encryption of data to JFFS2 would
> actually be fairly trivial; encryption of metadata would be harder. 
> 

I was pointing out it had to be considered.  Modesty prevented me from mentioning that adding encryption of both data and metadata to Squashfs would be very easy :-)

Phillip


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