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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2023-12-26 22:51:58 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2023-12-26 22:55:42 -0600 |
| commit | c1f1f5bf413936a93fea0f920e9aafff3551ad56 (patch) | |
| tree | a0c9a7af5b9375b941f96ae454365f388b10eabb | |
| parent | 0fc24a6549f9b6efc538b67a098ab577b1f9a00e (diff) | |
fscrypt: document that CephFS supports fscrypt now
The help text for CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION and the fscrypt.rst documentation
file both list the filesystems that support fscrypt. CephFS added
support for fscrypt in v6.6, so add CephFS to the list.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231227045158.87276-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/crypto/Kconfig | 2 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index 8d38b47b7b83..e86b886b64d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ However, except for filenames, fscrypt does not encrypt filesystem metadata. Unlike eCryptfs, which is a stacked filesystem, fscrypt is integrated -directly into supported filesystems --- currently ext4, F2FS, and -UBIFS. This allows encrypted files to be read and written without -caching both the decrypted and encrypted pages in the pagecache, -thereby nearly halving the memory used and bringing it in line with -unencrypted files. Similarly, half as many dentries and inodes are -needed. eCryptfs also limits encrypted filenames to 143 bytes, -causing application compatibility issues; fscrypt allows the full 255 -bytes (NAME_MAX). Finally, unlike eCryptfs, the fscrypt API can be -used by unprivileged users, with no need to mount anything. +directly into supported filesystems --- currently ext4, F2FS, UBIFS, +and CephFS. This allows encrypted files to be read and written +without caching both the decrypted and encrypted pages in the +pagecache, thereby nearly halving the memory used and bringing it in +line with unencrypted files. Similarly, half as many dentries and +inodes are needed. eCryptfs also limits encrypted filenames to 143 +bytes, causing application compatibility issues; fscrypt allows the +full 255 bytes (NAME_MAX). Finally, unlike eCryptfs, the fscrypt API +can be used by unprivileged users, with no need to mount anything. fscrypt does not support encrypting files in-place. Instead, it supports marking an empty directory as encrypted. Then, after diff --git a/fs/crypto/Kconfig b/fs/crypto/Kconfig index 2d0c8922f635..5aff5934baa1 100644 --- a/fs/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/fs/crypto/Kconfig @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config FS_ENCRYPTION feature is similar to ecryptfs, but it is more memory efficient since it avoids caching the encrypted and decrypted pages in the page cache. Currently Ext4, - F2FS and UBIFS make use of this feature. + F2FS, UBIFS, and CephFS make use of this feature. # Filesystems supporting encryption must select this if FS_ENCRYPTION. This # allows the algorithms to be built as modules when all the filesystems are, |