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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Experimental btrfs encryption
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:59:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160301175927.GA32354@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160301164616.dbbeuzccfkzupign@floor.thefacebook.com>

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:46:16AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> We'll definitely move in line with the common API over time.  Thanks
> Anand for starting this!
> 
> I'd prefer that we keep it per-subvolume for now, just because
> subvolumes are so cheap and because it seems like a better collection
> point for general use.  But as the other filesystems add features we'll
> make sure and keep parity with what users expect.

We already have per-file encryption in f2fs and ext4, and both have
a compatible userspace API and ABI.  It would be a pitty to deviate
from that intead of reusing it, and if needed extending it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-01 16:08 [RFC] Experimental btrfs encryption Anand Jain
2016-03-01 16:08 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] btrfs: Encryption: Add btrfs encryption support Anand Jain
2016-03-10  2:19   ` Liu Bo
2016-05-06  9:21     ` Anand Jain
2016-03-01 16:08 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] btrfs-progs: subvolume functions reorg Anand Jain
2016-03-01 16:08 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] btrfs-progs: Encryption: add encrypt sub cli Anand Jain
2016-03-01 16:29 ` [RFC] Experimental btrfs encryption Tomasz Torcz
2016-03-01 16:46   ` Chris Mason
2016-03-01 17:56     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-03-01 17:59     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-03-01 18:23       ` Chris Mason
2016-03-02  4:48         ` Anand Jain
2016-03-04 12:30           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-03-01 16:41 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-03-02  1:44   ` Qu Wenruo
2016-03-02  8:50     ` Anand Jain
2016-03-03  1:12       ` Qu Wenruo
2016-03-02  7:07   ` Anand Jain
2016-03-02  1:06 ` Qu Wenruo
2016-03-02  9:09   ` Anand Jain
2016-03-03  1:26     ` Qu Wenruo
2016-03-03 10:17   ` Alex Elsayed
2016-03-04  2:52     ` Anand Jain
2016-03-20 11:56   ` Martin Steigerwald
2016-03-03  1:58 ` Anand Jain
2016-03-22 14:25   ` David Sterba

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