<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Jonathan, all,</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We'll be introducing some clarification
into the publications to highlight that data is not stored in the inode
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</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan@buzzard.me.uk></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
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</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [gpfsug-discuss]
GPFS, LTFS/EE and data-in-inode?</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 14:45 +0000, James Davis wrote:<br>> Hey all,<br>> <br>> On the documentation of encryption restrictions and encryption/HAWC<br>> interplay...<br>> <br>> The encryption documentation currently states:<br>> <br>> "Secure storage uses encryption to make data unreadable to anyone
who<br>> does not possess the necessary encryption keys...Only data, not<br>> metadata, is encrypted."<br>> <br>> The HAWC restrictions include:<br>> <br>> "Encrypted data is never stored in the recovery log..."<br>> <br>> If this is unclear, I'm open to suggestions for improvements.<br>> <br><br>Just because *DATA* is stored in the metadata does not make it magically<br>metadata. It's still data so you could quite reasonably conclude that it<br>is encrypted.<br><br>We have now been disabused of this, but the documentation is not clear<br>and needs clarifying. Perhaps say metadata blocks are not encrypted. Or<br>just a simple data stored in inodes is not encrypted would suffice.<br><br>JAB.<br><br>-- <br>Jonathan A. Buzzard
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