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Truecrypt and splunk

cafissimo
Communicator

Hello, has anyone ever put splunkdb in a truecrypt encrypted volume succesfully? Thanks,

Luca.

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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I have not, but if you are able to successfully run the following command on the volume, all should be well:

./splunk cmd locktest

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.1.5/Installation/Systemrequirements#Supported_file_system...

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ftk
Motivator

I am not 100% sure that a service will be able to mount a truecrypt volume without an interactive logon. It may be possible, but in either case you will still see a performance penalty since every read/write operation will have to be de/encrypted before splunk has access to the data. Since splunk is quite disk intensive during indexing/searching, this overhead may lead to a very sluggish system performance.

I'd say just try it out on a dev system and report back with your findings for the good of the community 🙂

araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I have not, but if you are able to successfully run the following command on the volume, all should be well:

./splunk cmd locktest

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.1.5/Installation/Systemrequirements#Supported_file_system...

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