Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:54:43 +0500 | From | Fawad Lateef <> | Subject | Re: Am I thinking correctly? |
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On 11/7/05, ext3crypt <ext3crypt@comcast.net> wrote: > I'm working on a masters project for PSU. It requires that I modify the > ext3 and fs code in the kernel proper. > > The idea is to encrypt data just prior to it being written to disk. I've > created a new version of __block_write_full_page (which is called from > writepage) to allocate a new (GFP_NOFS) page, setup the buffer_head list and > copy the data to the new page (and encrypt it too). When I do this, the > data is not written to disk from the new buffer_head that I submit using > submit_bh(). I've treked through this code and I'm convinced I'm down the > right path. Am I? Any assistance would be appreciated. >
Which kernel version you are using ? Using kernel Encryption API ? How you got to know that your data is not written to disk ? Getting any error message ? or some-thing else ? And a url or attachment of code will help others to get to your problem !
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