Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:49:32 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: LUKS/ dm-crypt/ ext4 appears to be single threaded Message-ID: <4F6F76CC.7030300@holgerdanske.com>
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Thread moved from debian-user and dm-crypt.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/03/msg01154.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5724
I seem to recall FreeBSD having encrypted disks/ filesystems/ whatever.
Is there one that is multi-threaded?
TIA,
David
I have a 1.5 TB SATA hard drive I use for back-up's. It has a single
large partition encrypted with LUKS/ dm-crypt and formatted with ext4.
I've noticed what appears to be single-threaded behavior when one
process is performing a long-lived write to the disk (notably 'ssh
user@host tar ... > backupfile.tar.gz') and another process attempts to
access the disk (either read or write). This is tolerable for a back-up
application, but would not be acceptable for multi-user, multi-process,
and/or multi-threaded applications (file server, terminal server, web
server, etc.).
Is this a fundamental limitation of LUKS, dm-crypt, and/or ext4, or
something I've configured/ misconfigured?
If a fundamental limitation, is there something I can substitute to
eliminate the problem?
Some manufacturers make hard drives with built-in encryption. Are these
supported by Debian, Linux, or BSD?
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/self-encrypting-drives/
Any other comments or suggestions?
TIA,
David
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