[Help] How to Replace File Operations in File System?

[SandeepKsinha]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:27 PM, freeman <freeman.zhang1992 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>  2014-02-20 15:31, Rishi Agrawal :
>
> Hi,
>
> I went through your readme. Some questions.
>
>  1. How are you encrypting the files? Is it done by the encryptfs or you
> are doing it in your module.
>
>  2. How can the user selectively encrypt the files in the system.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rishi Agrawal
>
> Hi Rishi,
>
> Sorry about the fuzziness.
>
> #1 I plan to do the encryption in my module, but encrypting
> functions aren't added to it yet. As I mentioned in readme,
> module now just simply pass-through operations to the original
> file system.
>
> #2 It seems that the user cannot select specific file to encrypt
> inside one directory :-( . However he may specify a directory
> then we can encrypt all the file inside it. Namely, the granularity
> is directory, not file. Besides, subdirectory is not supported at
> present.
>
>
Why does it even matter - inode vs directory? Is it because you store the
encryption metadata in the dirent and not the inode?


> Regards
> Freeman
>
>
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Regards,
Sandeep.






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