[Lustre-discuss] Lustre File System Encryption

Andreas Dilger adilger at whamcloud.com
Tue May 8 17:26:04 PDT 2012


No, there is currently no encryption for Lustre at the filesystem level.  The document you refer to was the high-level architecture, but this feature has not been implemented. 

Cheers, Andreas

On 2012-05-08, at 18:07, "William Sanders" <wssanders at geisinger.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I am looking at a HPC storage solution, and part of what I've been asked
> to supply is encryption at the file system level.  The architectural document
> I've found for Lustre
> (http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Architecture_-_Security#SFS_Style_Encryption_of_File_Data)
> specifies that there is a Lustre SFS, but I can't find anymore information on
> it. 
>  
> Has anyone used this?  Does anyone have information on it?  Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Will
>  
>  
> Will Sanders
> Pb
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