From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com (freeman) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:48:07 +0800 Subject: [Help] How to Replace File Operations in File System? In-Reply-To: References: <52FC29B3.10201@gmail.com> <52FC69C7.7010705@gmail.com> <52FCC870.3010303@gmail.com> <5302E2DC.1040308@gmail.com> <53055B1B.5000500@gmail.com> <5305C387.3000506@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5305CF57.7090905@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 2014-02-2017:10, SandeepKsinha : > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:27 PM, freeman > wrote: > > > 2014-02-20 15:31, Rishi Agrawal : >> Hi, >> >> I went through your readme. Some questions. >> >> 1. How are you encrypting the files? Is it done by the encryptfs >> or you are doing it in your module. >> >> 2. How can the user selectively encrypt the files in the system. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Rishi Agrawal > Hi Rishi, > > Sorry about the fuzziness. > > #1 I plan to do the encryption in my module, but encrypting > functions aren't added to it yet. As I mentioned in readme, > module now just simply pass-through operations to the original > file system. > > #2 It seems that the user cannot select specific file to encrypt > inside one directory :-( . However he may specify a directory > then we can encrypt all the file inside it. Namely, the granularity > is directory, not file. Besides, subdirectory is not supported at > present. > > > Why does it even matter - inode vs directory? Is it because you store > the encryption metadata in the dirent and not the inode? > > > > Regards > Freeman > > > > -- > Regards, > Sandeep. > > "To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner." Hi Sandeep, Actually I haven't got that far... However as I planed it, I don't want involve the user too much- just to keep simple. I plan to build a safe box, and people throw personal things into it. That's all. I want to use it with Android devices. Will complex implementation build barrier for ebedded system? Any suggestions? Regards Freeman Zhang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140220/988b0ea9/attachment.html