On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:57:58PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Anthony Scarpino wrote: > > Darren J Moffat wrote: > >> Anthony Scarpino wrote: > >>> How does this differ from the import of the pool?.. Say for example > >>> an incorrectly entered passphrase.. > >> > >> In the case where you don't present the correct key you just get > >> garbage file data because it doesn't decrypt correctly. > > > > So is the intent that when you import a pool and give the wrong > > passphrase the the pool is still important, just the encrypted datasets > > are garbage and unaccessable.. or that the import will fail?.. > > The import will succeed but encrypted datasets will not be usable (ie > data will be garabage).
That's really not user-friendly... What if user simply misspell the passphrase? He won't be asked again, but will find garbage instead? -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd at FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-crypto-discuss/attachments/20070803/90e1569c/attachment.bin>
