On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:13:53 +0100 Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Am Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:03:03 -0600 schrieb Leonid Isaev <lisaev@umail.iu.edu>:
Reiser 3.6 is considered feature-complete I think, so only bugfixes are released. It was the default on SuSE until SLES 10 and is still maintained.
ReiserFS 3.6 is fast on a new system, but gets extremely slow after a few years. That was at least my experience and the reason for switching to ext3 which is after a few years now still as fast as at the beginning.
It slows down as the partition fills up, no? That's why I used it on /var only since the used disk space doesn't really fluctuate.
Cool :) I used LUKS but then figured it's not worth it. Because only several important file really need encryption, I ended up with plain gpg.
With GnuPG you have to explicitly decrypt the single files every time you want to access the file. With LUKS this happens transparently, and you can encrypt the whole system so that nobody can see what's on your harddisk except for the kernel, the initrd and the bootloader of course. So there are use cases for both LUKS and GnuPG depending on your needs or wishes.
I know. My sensitive data is localized, and I don't care to encrypt /usr/bin/firefox. If transparency is needed, I would go with ubuntu's ecryptfs. It's simpler, but of course requires FS to be supported by linux. Not to say that full disk encryption isn't usefull...
Heiko
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