Re: Impact of disk encryption and recommendations?

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On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Pieter Koorts <pieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Does the disk encryption have a major impact on performance for a busy(ish)
> > cluster?
> >
> > What are the thoughts of having the encryption enabled for all disks by
> > default?
> 
> Encryption means stricter requirements to handle a power failure, because
> container contents may be lost entirely as easy as regular filesystem may
> get corrupt on same event. Therefore enforced sync policy along with the
> additional CPU resources consumption and (very possibly) battery for disk
> controller requirement describes all the difference.

Hi Andrey,

You're talking about dm-crypt, right?  How does that affect safety?  I 
assumed that it passes IOs directly up and down the stack without
reordering or buffering.

sage
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