Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements

An anonymous reader writes: The Linux 4.1 kernel has been announced and its release brings expanded features for the Linux kernel including EXT4 file-system encryption, open-source GeForce GTX 750 support, performance improvements for Intel Atom / Bay Trail hardware, RAID 5/6 improvements, and other additions.

Comments

Please fix slashdot

[buck-yar]

Read More button gone. Stupid share button in its place.

Re:Please fix slashdot

[nine-times]

I'm suspicious that it was done intentionally, to prod us into posting links on social media and driving more traffic to the site. And why would I want to link my social media sites to Slashdot? I'd want to link directly to the article anyway.

Re:Please fix slashdot

[caseih]

Yes it still works, but it's not obvious or discoverable. And it's jarring. I typically read the blurb to decide if it's interesting, then click the read more at the bottom of the blurb to read the whole thing and the comments. Also the number of comments was right there at the bottom too, which made it nice and fast to see what were the interesting stories. Now that information is in the upper right-hand corner, so I just don't notice it straight away. I guess Dice once again has forgotten the value of slashdot and the interesting aspect of slashdot is the user-generated comments. Dice seems to be rolling out the beta site with all its crap and and its de-emphasis on user-provided content, but under the guise of the classic site. Not working guys!

If someone can post some greasemonkey scripts to fix the site, that'd be wonderful. Also if we could just turn off the video bytes stuff that would be good also. And put the polls back where they belong!

In the meantime, there is soylent. It's not been very good lately but if enough people go there and comment, and submit stories, maybe it will get better and be a proper replacement.

Re:Lots of great features and no kdbus

[MightyMartian]

It's certainly useful when you're moving equipment or storage devices. Your complaint would apply to any encrypted storage system that mounted an encrypted file system; Bitlocker, Truecrypt, dmcrypt, etc.

I work for a company that does a lot of government contract work, and we are contractually bound in almost all cases to story certain kinds of confidential data on encrypted media. When using Linux servers, we usually use dmcrypt, but EXT4 encryption would be a nice option as well.