On 07/28/2011 03:40 AM, Milan Broz wrote: > echo 3 > /proc/ss/cm/drop_caches > > does the same in more controlled way Hello Milan, Arraign I didn't know that one. Good to know! > Can you use something more recent? There were huge changes. > The same for user space. I always stay with the stock kernel (Fedora 14) so I don't have to take care of bug-fixes & security-updates for the kernel :) ...but I'll try to run a newer kernel If I do the test again. > BTW do you know that TC7 uses dm-crypt as backend? So with the same > mode and alignemnt you should get the same results > (except chained ciphers in TC). I had no idea it used dm-crypt! That's great. > Perhaps because you tested different modes... Use the same mode > in cryptsetup > > cryptstup luksFormat -c aes-xts-plain64 -s 512 ... > > I would really wonder if speed differs, TC7 uses dmsetup to configure > dm-crypt mapping on Linux :-) It uses user space (and FUSE) only for old > containers and some magic for hidden container. Great, I'll do that. I'll perform the tests again (everything equal: kernel, disk, data, empty buffers, rsync) but I'll use xts this time for LUKS. I'll report back. Thanks Milan! Jorge _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
