volume encryption, please?

[Robotbeat]

EncFS is an option, as well as dm-crypt. ZFS has transparent encryption, but has only userspace support for linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS

BTRFS is the future filesystem of linux, much like ZFS. It will eventually support transparent encryption.

As far as user-interaction for entering keys and such, well, that's probably best left up to the client-side. Really, for ultimate security, the client should encrypt the files themselves.

[To-M]

Diakiao and others - I may not have received your forum emails to me. Please try to send them again.

My mailbox is just full with toooooo many emails from many of you - please allow me time to get to all of you.

Thanks for understanding this.

[WanWizard]

Any news on volume encryption?

We have a requirement to host a storage solution in a datacenter, and since we can't control the security of the facility (it is shared colocation space with only a flimsy rack lock separating the data from an intruder) our customer insists on encrypting the data on disk.

The customer can live with the fact that after a restart a passphrase needs to be entered manually if no other solution exists. We have remote console access, so besides possibly introducing a bit more downtime we can live with this as well.