On 24.07.2012, Marc MERLIN wrote: > Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.05 seconds = 23.59 MB/sec > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Please correct me if I should be wrong, but your drive should report 512/4096 here, so it lies about the real blocksize it uses (4k). This raises the question if you have created your filesystem on top of the encrypted partition with e.g. "-b 4096". _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt