Eric Sandeen wrote:
Harald Hoyer wrote:
So all in all we have nearly accomplished the 30 Second Startup Feature http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup.
Well, no; not if this requires data=writeback. We can't ship that way, it's a potential security hole. You don't want someone's maildir suddenly containing pieces of /etc/shadow or whatnot. The old data that may be exposed by data=writeback may not belong to that user.
For my single user desktop with an encrypted filesystem, it makes no difference from a security standpoint. Even the pieces of /etc/shadow would be encrypted and only I can enter the decryption password after a (power?) failure.