[Lustre-discuss] Encryption of stored data?

Peter Kjellström cap at nsc.liu.se
Wed Dec 22 06:46:25 PST 2010


On Wednesday, December 22, 2010 08:12:53 am Erik Muttersbach wrote:
> I am currently reviewing Lustre and I am wondering if there is a
> possibility to have the files stored by Lustre encrypted on the disk? I
> have found the article:
> http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Architecture_-_Security#SFS_Style_Encrypt
> ion_of_File_Data. Unfortunately I cannot find any information about the
> mentioned file system "StorageTek Secure Filesystem, SFS".

You can put the OSTs on any blockdevice so that could be a (LUKS)cryptsetup 
managed target. Try googling on LUKS, crypttab, cryptsetup etc.

/Peter
 
> Thanks for you help!
> 
> Sincerely,
> EM
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