More geom classes?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Thu Dec 2 07:59:44 PST 2004


Terje Elde wrote:

> One thing that would be funny is GEOM XOR, with the possability of setting up
> two (or more) volumes, such that you write random bytes to one drive, and
> write the data xored with the random to the other.

I could easily do that with ggate for fun, if somebody'll use it :) (Of 
course, performance will probably suck, it being in userland...)

> Introduce RAID3 or 5 and add an extra disk, and you've for N-1 of M redundancy
> in your heavily encrypted volume. ;)

Oh yes :)

A password will still be required, for generating the random sequence...


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