Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 13, 2014, at 5:01 AM, David Pottage wrote: > At present, you can write RAID 5 or 6 data, but if anything goes wrong, btrfs > cannot use the parity information to help you get your data back, so in > general you are better off with RAID 1 or 10. Btrfs RAID5/6 normally mounted will recon

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-13 Thread Brendan Hide
On 2014/08/12 17:52, David Pottage wrote: [snip] ... if it does not then the file-system has broken the contract to secure delete a file when you asked it to. This is a technicality - and it has not necessarily "broken the contract". I think the correct thing to do would be to securely delete

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-13 Thread Konstantinos Skarlatos
On 13/8/2014 2:01 μμ, David Pottage wrote: On 12/08/14 12:00, Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote: Maybe help with Andrea Mazzoleni's New RAID library supporting up to six parities? It seems to be a great feature for btrfs. https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg31735.html Tha

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-13 Thread David Pottage
On 12/08/14 12:00, Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote: Maybe help with Andrea Mazzoleni's New RAID library supporting up to six parities? It seems to be a great feature for btrfs. https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg31735.html That would be very cool, but at present vanila

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-12 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-08-12 11:52, David Pottage wrote: > > On 11/08/14 03:53, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > >> Another thing that isn't listed there, that I would personally love to >> see is support for secure file deletion. To be truly secure though, >> this would need to hook into the COW logic so that fil

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-12 Thread David Pottage
On 11/08/14 03:53, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: Another thing that isn't listed there, that I would personally love to see is support for secure file deletion. To be truly secure though, this would need to hook into the COW logic so that files marked for secure deletion can't be reflinked (maybe

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-12 Thread Erkki Seppala
Austin S Hemmelgarn writes: > Another thing that isn't listed there, that I would personally love to > see is support for secure file deletion. As discussed in the followups, it is difficult to do a really secure deletion and a security-conscious person would opt to use encryption instead. Abili

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-12 Thread Konstantinos Skarlatos
On 10/8/2014 10:21 μμ, Vimal A R wrote: Hello, I came across the to-do list at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas and would like to know if this list is updated and recent. I am looking for a project idea for my under graduate degree which can be completed in around 3-4 mo

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 11, 2014, at 8:27 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 08/11/2014 04:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Another thing that isn't listed there, that I would personally >>> love to see is support for secure file deletion

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-11 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 08/11/2014 04:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn > wrote: > >> >> Another thing that isn't listed there, that I would personally >> love to see is support for secure file deletion. To be truly >> secure though, this would need to hook into the CO

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > > Another thing that isn't listed there, that I would personally love to > see is support for secure file deletion. To be truly secure though, > this would need to hook into the COW logic so that files marked for > secure deletion can't

Re: Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-10 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 08/10/2014 03:21 PM, Vimal A R wrote: > Hello, > > I came across the to-do list at > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas and would like to know > if this list is updated and recent. > > I am looking for a project idea for my under graduate degree which can be > completed i

Ideas for a feature implementation

2014-08-10 Thread Vimal A R
Hello, I came across the to-do list at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas and would like to know if this list is updated and recent. I am looking for a project idea for my under graduate degree which can be completed in around 3-4 months. Are there any suggestions and ideas