[nycbug-talk] Roland Dowdeswell interview on CGD

[Ray Lai]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:31:06PM -0500, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> On Fri 2005.12.23 at 11:18 -0500, Ray Lai wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:05:54AM -0500, michael wrote:
> > > If you haven't seen it:
> > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/12/21/netbsd_cgd.html
> > > 
> > > He has been a repeat speaker at NYCBUG meetings.
> > 
> > I've always wondered how gracefully encrypted disks handled crashes.
> > Does anyone have any experience?  I've used the encrypted disk image
> > for qemu before, but a crash rendered the whole image useless.
> 
> doh, that sucks. i haven't had many issues with svnd(4) before. i have
> all my home data that i care about in a svnd(4). before i got my new
> laptop, i had this old laptop which had zero battery life. i can't count
> the number of times i accidentally pulled the power cord, but the device
> came up successfully each time. now that i've got a working battery, i
> can't recall the last time this thing actually crashed completely, but
> what i can say is that i've yet to lose the data in that svnd(4).

Actually I was talking about qemu's encrypted disk image, not
svnd(4).

> now, i do backups all the time though ;) which i'm sure you do as well.

Of course not. =)

-Ray-