Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:21:05 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: Nikolay Mirin <nik@optim.com.ru> Cc: mvoorhis@cs.wpi.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GELI versus GBDE? Message-ID: <20070416162105.GA1592@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <46222EF7.1080507@optim.com.ru> References: <200704142307.l3EN72Sn031291@cs.wpi.edu> <46222EF7.1080507@optim.com.ru>
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--opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:56:07AM -0500, Nikolay Mirin wrote: > Definitely GELI. >=20 > GBDE will become obsolete very soon as some other things like vinum and= =20 > such. It was there just as a test of concept as I understand. > Many those different disk subsystems are incompatible in fact, the case= =20 > of GBDE and Vinum is mentioned as an example in the handbook. > Read more about GEOM, as this system will unite all possible disk=20 > techniqies. >=20 > Also, GELI takes advantage of crypto-hardware, but I believe that one=20 > gets a benefit out of it only if the main CPU is very slow. >=20 There are currently no plans to remove GBDE. The problems with Vinum you mention stemmed from the fact, that the original Vinum was not GEOM aware, thus, GELI couldn't have been used with it as well. gvinum has been in existance for some time now and it's fully compatible to both GBDE and GELI. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGI6JxbHYXjKDtmC0RAqd2AJ4x//od2lPwDfBD+qspTPo3ed3P/gCeJJmN hiTEp7I/FASkyjFF1m1P0jg= =93XE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga--
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