Re: Regarding FAQ #20: performance with loop-aes and lvm

markus reichelt <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:38:03 +0200
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* Thomas Braun <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do I have to switch to a different RAID level (e.g. RAID10) to get
> a more multicore-using loop-aes system?

No idea, I don't use neither a RAID nor lvm setup.


> As far as I understand every loop-device has one process/thread/
> whatever to do the encryption, right? Therefore on a multicore
> system you should have more loop devices in use to get more
> troughput ?

Yes.=20

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loop-AES FAQ: http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.loop-aes.php#faq
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