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

[SandeepKsinha]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:18 PM, freeman <freeman.zhang1992 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 2014-02-2017:10, SandeepKsinha :
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> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:27 PM, freeman <freeman.zhang1992 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>  2014-02-20 15:31, Rishi Agrawal :
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>>  Hi,
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>> I went through your readme. Some questions.
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>>   1. How are you encrypting the files? Is it done by the encryptfs or
>> you are doing it in your module.
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>>  2. How can the user selectively encrypt the files in the system.
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>> Regards,
>> Rishi Agrawal
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>> Hi Rishi,
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>> Sorry about the fuzziness.
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>> #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.
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>> #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.
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>  Why does it even matter - inode vs directory? Is it because you store
> the encryption metadata in the dirent and not the inode?
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>>  Regards
>>  Freeman
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>  --
> Regards,
> Sandeep.
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> “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.”
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> Hi Sandeep,
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> Actually I haven't got that far...
> However as I planed it, I don't want involve the user too much－
> just to keep simple. I plan to build a safe box, and people throw
> personal things into it. That's all.
> I want to use it with Android devices. Will complex implementation
> build barrier for ebedded system?
> Any suggestions?
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Not really. Just try to keep the implementation close enough to the
use-cases you want to target.
Make is user-centric rather than developer.

All the best!



> Regards
> Freeman Zhang
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Regards,
Sandeep.






“To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.”
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