Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:13:19 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, Yonas Yanfa <yonas@fizk.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Depreciate and remove gbde Message-ID: <CAPyFy2CLp=n900Yb5QhoVOd7L%2BzsvcdjwxLBxmjEbEBuvv2r6Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20151019205008.GG65715@funkthat.com> References: <56237623.5010702@fizk.net> <201510182329.t9INTarc018248@fire.js.berklix.net> <20151019061930.461285f8@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <20151019205008.GG65715@funkthat.com>
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On 19 October 2015 at 16:50, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > O. Hartmann wrote this message on Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:19 +0200: >> For me, I'd like to know what is the benefit/performance of each technique and >> a clear preparation of each ones advantages over the other. That would make the >> decission process much easier and hopefully would not scare people away and >> announce "FreeBSD does not have a, b, c, ..." ... > > So, one thing that the docs talk about is that geli uses the crypto(9) > framework. This doesn't mean much on it's own, but if you have a machine > with AES-NI instructions or an accelerator card that supports the cipher > mode used, then you can get faster performance of hardware off load, > while gbde uses the software only routines which are slow.. John-Mark, thanks for listing these differences. This is the sort of information we should have available for end users to help choose one or the other -- this info ought to make it into the handbook.
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