[Novalug] Filesystem encryption thoughts

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Tue Jul 31 22:36:29 EDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Mike H wrote:
> I wanted to know ppl's experiences with filesystem encryption on linux: good
> and bad.  I am looking into encrypting my swap partition and my home
> partition, but not my root partition on my brand new laptop.  However, I am
> concerned about increased data transfer latency.  Will my multimedia files
> i.e. movies and music be laggy when played back from an encrypted partition?

movies/music probably don't need to be encrypted.  have you considered
partitioning your data into needing security v.s. not needing
security?

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Mark Smith
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mark at tux dot org
nova-instructor at tux dot org



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