Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: systemd Maintainers <pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Tianon Gravi <tia...@debian.org>, Pete Batard <p...@akeo.ie>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 * Package name : efifs Version : 1.11 Upstream Contact: Pete Batard <p...@akeo.ie> * URL : https://github.com/pbatard/EfiFs * License : GPL-3.0 Programming Lang: C Description : EFI File System Drivers TLDR: enhances EFI boot managers such as systemd-boot and rEFInd with support for all the filesystems GRUB2 supports. Long version: Currently, GRUB2 seems to be the predominant boot manager. It is somewhat modern, feature-full, and supports many file systems, especially BTRFS. It supported LUKS1 since at least ~2014, but LUKS2 support was completly missing until ~2022, but even nowadays, only PBKDF2 Key Derivation Function is supported, and Argon2 KDF is still not supported, with no obvious way forward. Additionally, GRUB2's decryption performance leaves a lot to be desired. It is order[s] of magnitude slower than native one. Now, there are some alternatives: 1) rEFInd: * Lacks LUKS support * Has EFI driver for BTRFS (`/usr/share/refind/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi`) 2) systemd-boot * Has full LUKS2 support, including Argon2, with good performance * Lacks EFI driver for BTRFS 2) efifs * EFI drivers providing FS support, based on GRUB2 I.e. | | GRUB2 | rEFInd | systemd-boot | efifs | |-----------------------------------|-------|--------|--------------|-------| | BTRFS | YES | YES | NO | YES | | LUKS1 support (= encrypted /boot) | YES | NO | YES | n/a | | LUKS2 support | YES | NO | YES | n/a | | Argon2id support | NO | n/a | YES | n/a | | Native decryption perf | NO | n/a | YES | n/a | (Yes, bootloader + EFI drivers need to be *NOT* in /boot, but in a separete FAT32 EFI System Partition.) Now, one could/should be able to achieve BTRFS support in systemd-boot via simply using rEFInd's driver, however i suspect it may be a good idea to package efifs so that systemd-boot and rEFInd could achieve feature parity in file system support with GRUB2. Roman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE+UikBxeiu50LOdFYgbqkFMWfZdAFAmdM1wkACgkQgbqkFMWf ZdBfOw/9F3ymt1Aa7RyV7VKzoHyfpzeibbp1G9pKZNrPEEccsnU5eHSow1QDi652 8uoX+SASQTeRXt2NPXMm65P+HEp2786f8U5Vp8WS7DD2MbFpelJT+aCUKsRZUZKp AZn24U7YHJMifS2VIW45u/Cqm5HZhVL9BT0Njt1B0KRciP9NUd66+P6s0JNa7RLv kOoEFZ0HkXY4R1yAjk58YbIuMuQtFJDRFlqQNLXiMY1z5oPQd0F77Erc/T3JnPoW stXx5wTUuGQ2pPFkRhXfOCVlGSCWa46mp9RV9dR2RwMvHwlhvnTTau30BuRr8GFe pEYjFaMm8FtIoYlR6O5xFK2nBRBZqWc8PzIeWTbBbbClgriONCwotTr7BCHGN3f9 HtOjDt1pn3eaN1hVzyZaLWZ8WMkrhqeUiowHf31s7o/z85/OcvD8LeZwuZvCUZmd mZ6YF0e3oSdq8e6IePNzCnJmdxIgpFzW4h56wLa4L4awXVISScAgtTCutRuxVwDo aXzKgPiO+n62ZtddwJz6M1/ZczEWr2RMBbVGbXQqejGMEEXDe0nIdKjDWXUX4EfO nAjcVEgcX5RJdxv3udWqIzTl9hDqnn1GgT+HO6BpU2Pznc30TyFjJQwltYGSavFD YZLMQVWVmgVX/UoYqR8AEXgbFK8keC36v7/0w6954X0XljV+ZIY= =tbgB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
