I have been experimenting further with cryptsetup, and trying to learn the concepts. So far i have learned that it is much more beneficial to use LVM and dm-crypt combined. I have decided to use Serpent as encryption alogrithm, and this results in Payload offset at 3072 sectors or 1536KiB when the argument --align-payload=1024 is passed to cryptsetup, this is correct according to another post on this list. I do not fully understand this part but i try to visualize that one LUKS "unit" is now 1536KiB "wide" or 3 physical 512KiB erase blocks. Partitions, LVM and everything else is aligned directly to 512KiB or 1 physical erase block. It is not possible to reduce one LUKS "unit" in size because of keyslot space etc. Is my storage stack still aligned even that one LUKS "unit" is 3 physical erase blocks wide, or should one LUKS "unit" be exactly 512KiB "wide" (which is not possible) before my storage stack is aligned? I am not sure that my understanding of the concepts is correct, so i hope that someone can clarify this. Thanks for any suggestions. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
