On 1/9/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? > > What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. >
I mean updating my system (emerge -u world) once I put it on a cyphered partition. > > What if the > > data of some file gets corrupted, will I loose the whole HD? > > Encryption is done in (4k?) blocks, so you should only lose the > corrupted block. As to whether you lose a single file or the whole > filesystem, that depends on the nature of the corruption and the > filesystem. This is no different than having a corrupted hard drive. > > -Richard > Interesting. I was worried if the algorithm would make all the blocks dependents on each other. So, if I loose onde block, I'd be loosing all the others. What about the performance, is it too different from plain partition usage? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
