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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:02:39 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        dawnshade <h-k@mail.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stupid question about GBDE
Message-ID:  <20031120180239.GA5497@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <13171322518.20031120095558@mail.ru>
References:  <13171322518.20031120095558@mail.ru>

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:55:58AM +0300, dawnshade wrote:
> One question: i tuned GEOM encryption on IDE drive, but it works too
> slow (as described in paper ~20% of real speed), if i install SCSI
> drive (with controller, of course) it will be work faster?
> I think that will, but need your opinion to confirm.

This is extreamly unlikely.  The overhead is due to the encryption not
the disk.  Eventually, hardware acceleration of AES encryption should
help, but that is not integrated into GBE yet.

-- Brooks

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