Gluster users - Sep 2012 - Has anyone used encrypted filesystems with Gluster?

Hi,

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?

Thanks,
Whit

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