Aligning entire LUKS/LVM/Ext4 filesystem stack to 4K sectors

Maksim Fomin <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:37:27 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
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> On Friday, 19 March 2021 г., 19:09, Johnny Dahlberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> Is there anything I am missing here, or anything that you would suggest changing? For example, perhaps I should change "--align-payload 2048" to "--align-payload 4096" (what would that do/improve?), which I've seen a few mentions of?
>>
>> Grateful for any help in clearing this up, or clarifying that my steps are ready to use. It's been a very long research and I'd like to be sure that I am doing everything correctly.
>>
>> With best regards,
>>
>> Johnny

I think if LVM is partioned on 4k sectors, setting 4k at cryptsetup layer is not needed - all io requests will be done by lvm with 4k. However, I doubt there is a way to test this. Btw, I also have multilayer setup with traditional 512b at plain dm-crypt layer and 4k lvm.

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