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    SubjectRe: Encrypted Filesystem
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    On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 20:06, Mark Borgerding wrote:

    > Have you given any thought to journalling? fscking? Can directory
    > contents be encrypted? If so, what does the dir look like to others
    > (e.g. backup utils)
    >
    > Per-file signatures will severely affect random access performance.
    > Changing 1 byte in a 1 GB file would require the whole thing to be reread.

    What about calculating signatures on a per-block basis instead?

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