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They compare this to OSX FileVault in the article, so I thought I'd share this: I've been explicitly told by an Apple-approved technician that they don't recomm
by dstorrs 17y ago
They compare this to OSX FileVault in the article, so I thought I'd share this: I've been explicitly told by an Apple-approved technician that they don't recommend FileVault. The process of dynamically resizing the encrypted partition on the fly leads to a higher number of filesystem errors, many of which are non-recoverable.
- mseebach 17y agoThe eCryptfs layered file system approach also eliminates the need for a dedicated partition, sparse file, or preallocated disk space for the encrypted data. eCryptfs files are written to the administrator’s chosen underlying file system with the total disk capacity available. Since each encrypted file is written to disk as an atomic unit, users can perform per-file incremental encrypted backups to remote storage – something that is impractical and dangerous with block device encryption solutions.
- andrewtj 17y agoOn that tangent, if you're an OS X user and like myself you can't quite muster the faith to use FileVault for your home folder, Disk Utility (or hdiutil at the terminal prompt) will allow you to create encrypted disk images to stash your sensitive stuff in.