[ltp] Re: Good FS for laptop

[Aaron Mulder]

	FWIW, SuSE 9.1 provides extremely easy support for encrypted file
systems (though I'm not sure what it uses under the covers).  Check a box
and provide a password when configuring the partition, and it "just
works".

	Back on topic, I'm using reiser on my ThinkPad, and I've had no
problems or data loss (despite a couple crashes before I got it all
configured to my satisfaction).  This is only with the newer (2.6 series)
reiser, though -- I have no experience with the older implementation.

Aaron

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Bob Toxen wrote:
> I've been running PPDD on top of ext3 for my ThinkPad R31 for 1.5 years
> with no problems, despite a few crashes (all but 2 being operator error).
> 
> PPDD is an encrypted file system available from:
> 
>      http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/ppdd.html
> 
> It supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs and maybe more.  I run it on top of my
> /home and /home2 partitions.  Thus, if my laptop is shut down and stolen
> or lost, my business data is not lost.  Unless an encrypted file system
> is mounted (with a password needed for mounting), all file system data,
> including file names, is strongly encrypted and unavailable.
> 
> It does require some kernel patches be installed.  I don't build kernels
> every day but I am a very experienced C programmer and it took me about
> a day's effort to set up.
> 
> One also can have one's root file system encrypted due to some booting
> tools that come with it.  (The risk of not encrypting the root file system
> is that "deleted" temporary files can be found by hackers.  I periodically
> run a script that fills up all free space on each file system and then
> frees it to deal with this.)
> 
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