Hey, On 09/07/2009 Marcus Better wrote: > During boot, it takes around five seconds to unlock each > LUKS-encrypted LVM partition on my Thinkpad T61 with a 160 GB Western > Digital SATA disk. This is horrible for the boot time since I have six > encrypted partitions. > > Oddly enough it takes around two seconds on a very similar Thinkpad > R60 with an 80 GB drive. > > I also tried creating a 4 MB LVM volume and set up LUKS encryption on > the running system. Opening it takes around two seconds, and this is > without even clearing the cache between tests.
I can imagine that this is due to udevsettle being invoked everytime cryptsetup is run. This has been changed in subsequent releases. Could you give the packages at http://people.debian.org/~mejo/cryptsetup/ a try and report whether they fix your problem? greetings, jonas
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