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From: Alexander Koch <mail@alexanderkoch.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] (More) Questions about LUKS / LVM
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:21:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E78AF92.9040309@alexanderkoch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110920114724.GA21251@tansi.org>

Am 20.09.2011 13:47, schrieb Arno Wagner:
> With an SSD, things are a bit different. Due to the large
> internal sector size, the header can be in a sector that
> also has data that gets rewritten in it. As sectors are
> always written completely, the header then is at risk whenever
> that data gets rewritten.

Did I get that right: by using the TRIM-support available with kernel
3.1 I risk loosing my LUKS headers at regular use??

No chance to align the payload (data) in such a way that it starts at a
new sector, which then can be TRIMed without loosing the header?


Thanks,

Alex

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-20 10:36 [dm-crypt] (More) Questions about LUKS / LVM Robbie Smith
2011-09-20 10:52 ` Quentin Lefebvre
2011-09-20 11:47 ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-20 13:13   ` Milan Broz
2011-09-20 14:14     ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-20 14:52       ` Milan Broz
2011-10-03  6:17       ` Luca Berra
2011-10-03 10:55         ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-20 15:21   ` Alexander Koch [this message]
2011-09-20 16:12     ` Milan Broz
2011-09-20 17:41     ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-20 18:06       ` Karl O. Pinc
2011-09-20 18:19         ` Milan Broz
2011-09-21 10:22           ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-21 16:14             ` Dragan Milivojevic

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