[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The fact that the CGD author(s) engage in this FUD spreading in > random mailing lists rather than contact me directly speaks > speaks for itself, but here are my replies to some of the points raised:
Obviously this is a part of some aggressive NetBSD advocacy campaign that was started just recently, I find it hard to believe that someone just happened to find my original RFC on backporting GEOM to 4.x from like a month ago and then decided to revive the thread. Someone was looking for something recent about GBDE they could claw into. Anyone who has read recent posts by Chritos Zoulas can see the pattern, this seems to be an organized effort not so much pro NetBSD but anti other BSDs. There is really no need for that kind of campaigning, it gives a bad name to all BSDs. All software has some merit, just state the facts and let the users decide what they want. I agree with you on almost all the other points you addressed (journaling being an exception - I would make it optional, not mandatory) as I have stated pretty much the same things myself in my previous posts, so I will not further comment on that, but I would like to ask your opinion on the matters I raised about introducing the following changes to GBDE: 1. Introducing a sysctl variable to control how often (after how many writes) the random key is regenerated: kern.geom.bde.random_key_regeneration_cycle The way it works now would correspond to the value being 1 with regeneration happening on every write. Setting this higher would improve the performance and people could decide for themselves what value fits their needs. 2. Backporting to 4.x - this has more or less come to the point that I would rather write the whole thing from scratch, similar to vncrypt (ports/security/vncrypt), only implementing the main principles found in GBDE. ALeine ___________________________________________________________________ WebMail FREE http://mail.austrosearch.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
