Newsmail wrote: > how is this preallocation calculated, is there any way to tweak it? :> or I > presume its tweaked already. does it matter how big the filesystem on top > the loop device is, how many writes do we have simultaneously, how fast do > we have them(or do we want to have them :)), what is ideal, etcetc. This is explained in loop-AES' README file. Look for section "Performance tuning for 2.4 kernels". As to question of how many simultaneous writes, each device backed loop can have preallocated number of pages in-flight simultaneously. In-flight meaning that a request has been sent to underlying driver (ide or scsi), but underlying driver has not yet acknowledged that request as completed. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
