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| author | Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com> | 2017-04-22 00:45:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com> | 2017-04-22 00:45:22 -0700 |
| commit | a0e1b8cbe84c2e72c59f76208d4bc42784a39926 (patch) | |
| tree | ad0117cb1e62a8599fdd2401edcf8ce5d110b472 /Todo.mdwn | |
| parent | 4ff36613d1c7d840ca2fb8faae1c18ff684ca84d (diff) | |
Todo: Moar references
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@@ -88,16 +88,18 @@ * "Seed devices", hard-readonly devices that are CoWed from on write (btrfs has this; useful for base devices for virtualization, among other things). - * Nonce-misuse-resistant authenticated encryption, such as AES-SIV or HS1-SIV - (Closes potential hole regarding nonce reuse and "external" snapshots, as - might happen to VMs or systems with externally-managed storage like iSCSI). - * Some form of "secure delete" functionality. + * Nonce-misuse-resistant authenticated encryption, such as [AES-SIV][AESSIV] + or HS1-SIV (Closes potential hole regarding nonce reuse and "external" + snapshots, as might happen to VMs or systems with externally-managed storage + like iSCSI). + * Some form of "secure delete" functionality. (However, see [this LWN article][secdel] + regarding implementation strategies and pitfalls). * A simplified userspace API with no hierarchy, only blobs identified by unique integer keys (eternaleye thinks this might be useful for - object-capability systems, such as Robigalia). + object-capability systems, such as [Robigalia][robigalia]). * An API like the above, but supporting multiple streams per blob, possibly with string identifiers (needs further examination, intent is to match the - needs of CephFS for storage backends). + [needs of CephFS for OSD backends][cephback]). * More advanced caching algorithms; one potentially-relevant paper is [Pannier: A Container-based Flash Cache for Compound Objects][pannier]. * "Asymmetrical" compression algorithms, that support only decompression (XZ @@ -115,6 +117,10 @@ presence of encryption. * Swap file support. +[AESSIV]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5297 +[secdel]: https://lwn.net/Articles/462437/ +[robigalia]: https://robigalia.org +[cephback]: http://bryanapperson.com/blog/ceph-osd-performance/ [pannier]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fa5f/3aa6de62e126e6fe2986c70a34e4d678860b.pdf [triple-parity]: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg28964.html [RFC6330]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6330 |