aged1000

Hi there. Just a random user of the software here! I wanted to add my thanks to @idrassi for all he's done and say, of course, it goes without saying that your important family obligations must take priority. I would also like to say that in my opinion, people like you are the heroes of the software world. You shoulder the burden of critically important projects seeking no (financial) gain, for no other reason than you believe in the necessity of what you are doing. Please realize that you have the...

Thanks, exactly the kind of feedback I wanted. As you say, I'm losing neglible space so don't rock the boat!

Hi there. I've searched for a discussion on this and perhaps it's too insignificant to have merited a post however I'm creating a new setup so I wanted to ask. With snapraid, can I write the filesystem to a whole, unpartitioned drive, i.e. /dev/sda, sdb and so on rather than creating /dev/sda1, sdb1 etc. I can take care of ensuring the data disks are smaller than the parity disk without using paritions and by adjusting the -m [reserve space] flag when I mkfs.ext4? I'm intending to go with whole disks...

All very clear, thank you.

My understanding is that it is broadly agreed that authenticated encryption should be used to protect the plaintext and guarentee no tampering. This has lead to new modes of implementation such as AES-GCM, AES-CCM and others such as ChaCha20 which Keepass offers for securing the database. I'm currently using ChaCha20 but am considering switching to Serpent-256 CBC which is an older block mode. Serpent has always had an excellent reputation for the strength of it's cipher. I believe a GCM implementation...