From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: CACook@quantum-sci.com Subject: Re: Encrypting BTRFS Volume Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 09:56:52 -0800 Message-ID: <201212030956.52866.CACook@quantum-sci.com> References: <201212011306.59255.CACook@quantum-sci.com> <201212030839.12613.CACook@quantum-sci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gateway07.websitewelcome.com ([67.18.34.4]:46926 "EHLO gateway07.websitewelcome.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750794Ab2LCSV5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:21:57 -0500 Received: from getz.websitewelcome.com (getz.websitewelcome.com [174.121.36.226]) by gateway07.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BB1A6C4AF82 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:56:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from [67.183.170.11] (port=37939 helo=hydra.localnet) by getz.websitewelcome.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TfaGD-0000fo-SC for ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:56:54 -0600 In-Reply-To: Sender: ecryptfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org On Monday, December 03, 2012 09:04:38 AM B. J. Potter wrote: > OK. Here's an option. Rename your mount /media/encrypted. Make the > ecryptfs directory there. Then mount that through ecryptfs as > /media/backups. You are necessarily going to lose some btrfs > features, here you lose subvolumes. You could set it up differently > depending on what features you care about. You might also consider > ZFS, which I think is better designed/implemented than BTRFS (but > comes with other problems). > > As far as ecryptfs goes though. You just make a folder on some device > (be it a subvolume, normal filesystem, whatever) and then mount it. > Use that wherever you see fit. OK thanks. But subvolumes are critical because we need backup snapshots. And so I am in this mess I have now.