From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 13:17:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8807716A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:17:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474A943D46 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:17:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms070.mailsrvcs.net ([192.168.1.3]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IVR00BU9E8W4857@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:17:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:17:20 -0600 (CST) From: Sergey Babkin To: Ashley Moran , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <2833016.1141737440654.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:23:20 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: babkin@users.sf.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:17:21 -0000 >From: Ashley Moran >I just saw this slashdotted article: >http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html > >Just to satisfy my curiosity, is it the sort of thing that can be implemented >as a GEOM layer? The idea is bloody clever but sounds like a bit of a hack >right now. Well, I've been running around with this kind of idea for around 10 years now. Never actually implemented it though. I can't quite believe that encryption at full disk speeds makes no noticeable CPU overhead. -SB