From 8fe3d90d34c26083e9856cb134dfe17a5f6999aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:47:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] docs: update partition encryption options Text from Adam Vande More --- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 491683730e..bbb808fecb 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1815,12 +1815,12 @@ pg_dumpall -p 5432 | psql -d postgres -p 5433 - On Linux, encryption can be layered on top of a file system - using a loopback device. This allows an entire - file system partition to be encrypted on disk, and decrypted by the - operating system. On FreeBSD, the equivalent facility is called - GEOM Based Disk Encryption (gbde), and many - other operating systems support this functionality, including Windows. + Storage encryption can be performed at the file system level or the + block level. Linux file system encryption options include eCryptfs + and EncFS, while FreeBSD uses PEFS. Block level or full disk + encryption options include dm-crypt + LUKS on Linux and GEOM + modules geli and gbde on FreeBSD. Many other operating systems + support this functionality, including Windows.