Should not matter. Also a speed increase is unlikely, disks are still dog-slow compared to things the CPU does, like encrypting sectors. They are not written/read individually anyways in most cases. Arno On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 03:29:18PM +0100, Lars T??uber wrote: > Hi there, > > does dm-crypt depend in any way on the sector size of the block device to be encrypted? > So the real question is: Does dm-crypt work as expected on a 4KiB sector sized SATA drive when there is no translation to 512B sector size? Are there options that must be taken then? > > I've read somewhere that the encryption algorithm work with 512B block sizes. > Could this be changed to 4KiB block sizes to gain speed with the upcoming devices? > > Thanks > Lars > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
