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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Very long raid5 init/rebuild times
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:37:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140121163755.GG10140@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140121073540.GF10140@merlins.org>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:35:40PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm setting up a new array with 5 4TB drives for which I'll use dmcrypt.
> 
> Question #1:
> Is it better to dmcrypt the 5 drives and then make a raid5 on top, or the opposite
> (raid5 first, and then dmcrypt)
> I used:
> cryptsetup luksFormat --align-payload=8192 -s 256 -c aes-xts-plain64 /dev/sd[mnopq]1
 
I should have said that this is seemingly a stupid question since obviously
if you encrypt each drive separately, you're going through the encryption
layer 5 times during rebuilds instead of just once.
However in my case, I'm not CPU-bound, so that didn't seem to be an issue
and I was more curious to know if the dmcrypt and dmraid5 layers stacked the
same regardless of which one was on top and which one at the bottom.
 
Marc
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-21  7:35 Very long raid5 init/rebuild times Marc MERLIN
2014-01-21 16:37 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2014-01-21 17:08   ` Mark Knecht
2014-01-21 18:42   ` Chris Murphy
2014-01-22  7:55   ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-22 17:48     ` Marc MERLIN
2014-01-22 23:17       ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-23 14:28         ` John Stoffel
2014-01-24  1:02           ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-24  3:07             ` NeilBrown
2014-01-24  8:24               ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-23  2:37       ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-23  9:13         ` Marc MERLIN
2014-01-23 12:24           ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-23 21:01             ` Marc MERLIN
2014-01-24  5:13               ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-25  8:36                 ` Marc MERLIN
2014-01-28  7:46                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-28 16:50                     ` Marc MERLIN
2014-01-29  0:56                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-29  1:01                         ` Marc MERLIN
2014-01-30 20:47                     ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-01 22:39                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-02 18:53                         ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-03  6:34                           ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-03 14:42                             ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-04  3:30                               ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-04 17:59                                 ` Larry Fenske
2014-02-04 18:08                                   ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-04 18:43                                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-04 18:55                                       ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-04 19:15                                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-04 20:16                                           ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-04 21:58                                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-05  1:19                                               ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-05  1:42                                                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-30 20:36                 ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-30 20:18             ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-22 19:38     ` Opal 2.0 SEDs on linux, was: " Chris Murphy
2014-01-21 18:31 ` Chris Murphy
2014-01-22 13:46 ` Ethan Wilson

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