On Fr, 06.12.19 18:58, Lata Lante (latala...@cock.li) wrote:

> > If you use LUKS/dm-crypt without dm-integrity and you have a clue
> > where things are located then you can change files without anything
> > being able to detect that. (On btrfs you might have some luck, since
> > it has data checksumming, but ext4 and other traditional file systems
> > do not).
> Of course Ext4 can.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f60c55a94e1d127186566f06294f2dadd966e9b4

Uh? fs-verity is read-only integrity protection, i.e. akin to
dm-verity, not akin to dm-integrity.

Also fs-verity applies to individual files only, it thus only has very
specific usecases. You cannot sensibly do fs-verity across the whole
OS tree, you'd spent agres to set it up at boot...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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