Hi David, using LUKS should not result in write-amplification. LUKS uses 512B blocks and just provides an 1:1 mapping. Regards, Arno On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 01:59:41 CET, David Niklas wrote: > Hello, > Today I was helping a poor luser who's Crucial P1 QLC SSD died from > too many writes. We still don't know what's doing the writing, but he is > running luks using FDE so write amplification is definitely a > factor. > I forget the answer to this so please enlighten me, is there a streaming > cypher he can use instead of a block cipher? A better option that I > didn't consider? > Not that the TCG Opal is to be fully trusted (nor is it available on > that model), but how does it work with respect to write amplification vs. > luks? > > Thanks, > David > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato 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 https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
