Cathryn Mitchell Reid
2007-Jan-10 16:24 UTC
delete my account...Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: zfs create -o
Thanks for your reply Derek, here is one of the emails.... Cathryn Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: zfs create -o From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com> To: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@sun.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:12:47 -0400 CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:47 -0700, Eric Schrock wrote:> The copy-on-write nature of ZFS makes this extremely difficult, > particularly w.r.t. to snapshots. That''s not to say it can''t be solved, > only that it won''t be solved in the near term (i.e. within the next > year). The timeframe for ZFS crypto support is much shorter, and this > requirement is entirely reasonable for an initial implementation.So, maybe we''re doing these projects in the wrong order, then -- my experience with implementing systems using cryptography is that unless you design, implement, *and* test algorithm and key agility from the beginning, you will have to throw away a lot more than you originally expected to when you try to add it in later. - Bill _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20060815/4905ae3b/attachment.html