UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

[Christoph Trassl]

On 10/25/2011 05:30 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:45:45PM +0200, Christoph Trassl wrote:
>> On 10/25/2011 09:33 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
>>> On 10/25/2011 09:30 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>>>> On 10/25/2011 09:15 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>>>>> It's not only an aesthetic issue. This enables
>>>>> possibilities, which were not doable before.
>>> ...
>>>> - mount rootfs encrypted - mount /usr not encrypted (no secrets
>>>> here)
>>>
>>> this is already possible, I use this setup for a long time.
>>
>> Does not seem to make any sense to me, unless you verify that no
>> one has messed with your binaries/libraries in /usr.
>
> Does not seem to make any sense to me, unless you verify that no one
> has messed with your kernel/bootloader in /boot or /dev/sda.

Correct.

Verifying the kernel/bootloader could easily been done within seconds -
at every boot.

If you can do it as fast for gigs of data in /usr, please tell me how.

Christoph.