Santiago Castillo wrote: > then i try different stride size for ext3 filesystem.... I tryed with 1, 2, 4, > 8, 16, 32, and 64 and no stride parameters. > > I found that I get the best result with no stride parameter.... What kernel version are you using? > I suppose that stride parameter is only useful when the fs is directly over RAID > and not over a loop device. is this true? Loop-AES bangs backing device with page size requests even in situations where file system bangs loop-AES with multi-page requests. -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/