Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:01:29 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geli sector size > 8192 completely breaks. Message-ID: <20080203030129.18e1d940@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <BAY121-W12DA3D3CD325ACA0A0A8C9B2310@phx.gbl> References: <BAY121-W12DA3D3CD325ACA0A0A8C9B2310@phx.gbl>
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:51:19 +0000 Andrew B <lightmoogle@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I've been trying to get GELI working in a number of ways, and it > seems whenever I change the sector size to 16384 or higher, I can't > run newfs on the resultant encrypted volume. Bill Moran, in the questions list, said he got panics at 8k. > Using dd with sector size 16384 gives me the greatest performance for > the sector size I'm willing to have. I did some tests like that, but I wondered how well that translates to actual performance. dd shows the benefit of fewer IV initialisations, but that could be wiped-out if larger sectors lead to more work for the cipher.
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