From: Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: [RFD] Common userspace tool for fscypto Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:59:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <0bef3877-060e-b722-0354-3a5508219e23@nod.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel , kzak@redhat.com, Theodore Ts'o , Jaegeuk Kim , Eric Biggers , David Gstir , Ext4 Developers List , linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" To: Michael Halcrow Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Michael, On 19.10.2016 19:36, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Since file level encryption has more than one user, currently ext4, f2fs and soon ubifs >> it would be nice to have a single tool to control fscrypto from userspace. >> >> For ext4 we have already at least two tools, one as part of e2fsprogs and another >> one on github[0]. IMHO the latter one is much more user friendly and intuitive to use. >> I as unable to find the userspace tool for f2fs. >> >> That said, what about implementing such a tool as part of util-linux to control >> fscrypto? We (David and I) would volunteer. > > While discussing several changes we have staged for release (we're > trying to minimize churn by batching a large set of format changes all > at once), we've recently recognized this need on my team and were > planning on starting work on exactly what you propose. Can you please some details? Will it be GPL? Part of util-linux? What features does it have? I hope more than just being a wrapper to the ioctls(). Thanks, //richard