Panther File Vault : Experiences
I'm curious what everyone is experiencing with the filevault.
I recently enabled it, and here is what I've noticed so far:
Mounts a home icon on the desktop, which is really just an encrypted disk image. You can't eject it because it's in use.
When web browsing it seems to access my disk alot. Looking at top shows the disk working.
It seems to be fast other than the annonying disk running issue.
What are your experiences?
I recently enabled it, and here is what I've noticed so far:
Mounts a home icon on the desktop, which is really just an encrypted disk image. You can't eject it because it's in use.
When web browsing it seems to access my disk alot. Looking at top shows the disk working.
It seems to be fast other than the annonying disk running issue.
What are your experiences?
Comments
Originally posted by torifile
Umm. do you mean panther file vault? Haven't tried it. Not willing to risk my data if something changes between now and the GM.
I hanvn't triet File Vault myself yet.. I guess I'm to chincken to do that before final release. I also have all my third party apps installed in my home directory so I'm pretty sensitive to performance drops.
If this is a success, is there any possibility for Apple to implement a system wide encryption scheme? There must be cases when such a feature is a must have.
Disk accesses are very slow compared to CPU performance, and I think any G4 could make realtime encryption/decryption.
Originally posted by Moogs
Why would FileVault use AltiVec? The encryption part?
Yes. Encryption is one of the things that AltiVec is especially well suited for.
*back to reading The Code Book*
Originally posted by Chealion
If its accessing the hard drive so much, wouldn't this be a really bad idea for notebook users, who when this was announced was pitched at? Accessing the hard drive so often will just kill the battery very fast.
I wouldn't think that accessing the disk would drain your power ... the disk is already spinning. People who use FCP still get pretty good battery life, and their doing disk accessing all the time.