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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!yseeley From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) Subject: Re: Compressing file system ? Message-ID: <1993Aug13.010742.25703@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA References: <23tsn3$7e@Germany.EU.net> <1993Aug6.200839.9675@udel.edu> <24em6c$84@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 01:07:42 GMT Lines: 17 In article <24em6c$84@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes: >Since we are on the topic of new file systems, I was just wondering >if anyone had considered an encrypting file system. I think you can do this under Linux via a loopmount (mounting a file as a filesystem). Does *BSD have something like this? This approach is probably slower, but it is fine for the limited amount of stuff I would want to keep encrypted. However, if you really wanted a large part of your filesystem encryped, a real fs may be a better idea. >-- >Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! >VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - Don't blame me if the finger daemon is down - Yonik Seeley yseeley@cs.stanford.edu