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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst18
-rw-r--r--fs/crypto/Kconfig2
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
index 8d38b47b7b83..e86b886b64d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst
@@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ However, except for filenames, fscrypt does not encrypt filesystem
metadata.
Unlike eCryptfs, which is a stacked filesystem, fscrypt is integrated
-directly into supported filesystems --- currently ext4, F2FS, and
-UBIFS. This allows encrypted files to be read and written without
-caching both the decrypted and encrypted pages in the pagecache,
-thereby nearly halving the memory used and bringing it in line with
-unencrypted files. Similarly, half as many dentries and inodes are
-needed. eCryptfs also limits encrypted filenames to 143 bytes,
-causing application compatibility issues; fscrypt allows the full 255
-bytes (NAME_MAX). Finally, unlike eCryptfs, the fscrypt API can be
-used by unprivileged users, with no need to mount anything.
+directly into supported filesystems --- currently ext4, F2FS, UBIFS,
+and CephFS. This allows encrypted files to be read and written
+without caching both the decrypted and encrypted pages in the
+pagecache, thereby nearly halving the memory used and bringing it in
+line with unencrypted files. Similarly, half as many dentries and
+inodes are needed. eCryptfs also limits encrypted filenames to 143
+bytes, causing application compatibility issues; fscrypt allows the
+full 255 bytes (NAME_MAX). Finally, unlike eCryptfs, the fscrypt API
+can be used by unprivileged users, with no need to mount anything.
fscrypt does not support encrypting files in-place. Instead, it
supports marking an empty directory as encrypted. Then, after
diff --git a/fs/crypto/Kconfig b/fs/crypto/Kconfig
index 2d0c8922f635..5aff5934baa1 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config FS_ENCRYPTION
feature is similar to ecryptfs, but it is more memory
efficient since it avoids caching the encrypted and
decrypted pages in the page cache. Currently Ext4,
- F2FS and UBIFS make use of this feature.
+ F2FS, UBIFS, and CephFS make use of this feature.
# Filesystems supporting encryption must select this if FS_ENCRYPTION. This
# allows the algorithms to be built as modules when all the filesystems are,