On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:08:49PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: > All, > > I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know where I can find info on the CPU hit from using a software encrypting FS. well, i'll quickly bring in some LVM stuff, as i run encryption both under and ontop of a LVM-system. (different cihper though). > In particular I would like to see a comparison between None, Microsoft EFS, and Linux loopback encryption. well, isnt EFS a FS encryption? loopback is a block encryption, there is a difference. My experience is that i with loop-AES or PPDD, (blowfish as cipher) gets about 1/4 to 1/3 of the performance of raw. JonB _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/