On 03.02.2010, DZ wrote: > Is this a typical experience: ext3 performance degradation with time > and a much better performance with full disk encryption once ext3 is > migrated ext4? I have never encountered what you describe here. Did you try to mount the ext3 fs with "noatime,data=writeback"? How much space was left on the ext3 partition? _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt