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From: Goetz Bock <bock@blacknet.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] RFC: DM encryption target?
Date: Mon Sep 29 08:07:05 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030926214616.GG12384@shell.blacknet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064581467.4175.3.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net>

On Fri, Sep 26 '03 at 15:04, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Am Fr, den 26.09.2003 schrieb jon+lvm@silicide.dk um 14:48:
> 
> > > I don't know, but couldn't the use of a one-sector block slow things
> > > down because of alignment issues? Perhaps using a 4k block would be more
> > > useful or storing the sector at the end of the device (like the linux
> > > raid info sector).
> > 
> > maybe, but does it matter? 
> 
> No, I meant the following: Let's assume you are using crypto on a raid
> 0/5 device or something. Usually the filesystem uses 4k blocks. 
> [ ... ] A lot of harddisks these days use internal blocks that are
> larger than 512 bytes so there are also alignment issues.
While I don't have any idea how harddisks work internaly thise days,
I've no problem to loose 4k or even 16k if it improves anything. 
But I would still like to get it to the beginning of the
partition/drive/device.

Mainly to be able to do

less -f $DEVICE

to figure out what it's all about. I do this more often than not and
hate it if all i get back is just binary garbage. 

Everyfile should tell me what is is for/from in plain text. 
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-29  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-23 11:02 [linux-lvm] DM encryption target? Greg Freemyer
2003-09-23 12:08 ` Kevin Corry
2003-09-23 11:55   ` Greg Freemyer
2003-09-23 14:02 ` Christophe Saout
2003-09-24  6:21   ` Jon Bendtsen
2003-09-24  7:00     ` Christophe Saout
2003-09-24  9:53       ` jon+lvm
2003-09-25  8:03       ` Goetz Bock
2003-09-25 11:09         ` [linux-lvm] RFC: " Christophe Saout
2003-09-26  7:50           ` jon+lvm
2003-09-26  8:05             ` Christophe Saout
2003-09-29  8:07               ` Goetz Bock [this message]
2003-09-29  8:40                 ` jon+lvm
2003-09-26 14:16             ` Greg Freemyer
2003-09-27  8:35               ` jon+lvm

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