On 13/07/2009 Jonas Meurer wrote: > 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?
Hello Marcus, did you already try the new packages (now in debian/sid)? I'm curious about whether they fix this issue. greetings, jonas
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