From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
kzak@redhat.com, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Common userspace tool for fscypto
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:59:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cdd8d83f-bdc8-df01-1230-8cfb9ec4c8fb@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+POJK10M3_GhP_Ge4qkQF4gSNMUXVr5kem9Ak4EDmVRvRUg7g@mail.gmail.com>
Michael,
On 19.10.2016 19:36, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Since file level encryption has more than one user, currently ext4, f2fs and soon ubifs
>> it would be nice to have a single tool to control fscrypto from userspace.
>>
>> For ext4 we have already at least two tools, one as part of e2fsprogs and another
>> one on github[0]. IMHO the latter one is much more user friendly and intuitive to use.
>> I as unable to find the userspace tool for f2fs.
>>
>> That said, what about implementing such a tool as part of util-linux to control
>> fscrypto? We (David and I) would volunteer.
>
> While discussing several changes we have staged for release (we're
> trying to minimize churn by batching a large set of format changes all
> at once), we've recently recognized this need on my team and were
> planning on starting work on exactly what you propose.
Can you please some details?
Will it be GPL? Part of util-linux?
What features does it have?
I hope more than just being a wrapper to the ioctls().
Thanks,
//richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-24 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-19 11:35 [RFD] Common userspace tool for fscypto Richard Weinberger
2016-10-19 17:36 ` Michael Halcrow
2016-10-24 11:59 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2016-11-29 20:48 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-11-29 21:42 ` Joe Richey
2016-11-29 21:59 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-11-30 0:04 ` Eric Biggers
2016-11-30 8:27 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-12-03 0:40 ` Eric Biggers
2016-11-30 21:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-10-24 12:49 ` Karel Zak
2016-10-24 13:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
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