Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:26:22 -0400:
> Not sure what the fancy scripts that are being discussed do, but this is > plenty good for me, and I'm sure Duncan could get this running in about > 15 seconds... Well, there's could, and there's groking what it's actually doing, in case there's a problem and to ensure it's actually encrypting it. (I /seriously/ hope that mention of uuencode doesn't mean they're using /it/ to "encrypt", for instance. A quick look say they aren't, but that doesn't tell me what's actually going on yet, either.) If I'm going to be running encrypted swap, I'm going to need to know all about what I'm using to encrypt it (losetup here, it seems), and how that plays with my four-way striped swap (a four gig partition on each of my four SATA drives, all set pri=1 so the kernel stripes it for performance), among other things. If I can't rest assured it's working well, why bother? Actually, what I could do now that I have 8 gig of RAM is turn off swap again, wipe the partitions, and simply leave swap off. Only if they ever get suspend to disk working semi-reliably... and I do have /tmp (which is my $PORTAGE_TMPDIR as well) mounted as a tmpfs, and could theoretically go into swap with multiple parallel merges tho I have it set to 5 gig max, which would still give me 3 gig of memory to work at a maxed /tmp, even with 0 swap. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
