Why Plan-9?

[Jim Choate]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Steve Furlong wrote:

> - Encrypted file systems: I want my main server to have TCFS or
> equivalent, so if the machine is seized the feebs would see a tiny boot
> partition and a large, strongly-encrypted main partition. I tried a few
> encrypted file systems a while back, and the couple I found for OBSD
> weren't there yet, either; they typically dumped core when I tried to
> use them. (I see that Dr Evil posted a message on this subject last May
> on a list archived at Geocrawler, so I guess the shortcoming hasn't been
> fixed since I last looked at it in depth.)

You can do this in Plan 9 and also spread the file around it's pieces
hither and yon...


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