From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Peter Smith <peter.smith3882100@gmail.com>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup align problem
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:58:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283536707.6913.3.camel@fermat.scientia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=ydit6TCX+VST1+rC540YTNNqUC9Q58Bapv-Z@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:43 +0200, Peter Smith wrote:
> The LUKS volume is aligned to 1024K this is a multiple of 512 then lvm
> is aligned to 512K with pvcreate --metadatasize 512k /dev/mapper/XXX,
> i could also align dm-crypt to 4096K which is a multiple of 512 or
> maybe align lvm to 1024K instead.
AFAIU --metadatasize has nothing (directly) to do with the alignment,
but just how much is reserved for metadata.
Cheers,
Chris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-25 21:50 [dm-crypt] cryptsetup align problem Peter Smith
2010-08-25 22:58 ` Milan Broz
2010-08-26 12:43 ` Peter Smith
2010-09-03 17:58 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer [this message]
2010-09-04 9:31 ` Peter Smith
2010-09-05 10:07 ` Milan Broz
2010-09-05 15:07 ` Peter Smith
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