Hi. On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 10:59:21AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Because yes there's a cost and it's speed.
I call this cost acceptable: # pv /dev/sda3 > /dev/zero ^C50GiB 0:00:04 [ 385MiB/s] # cryptsetup status /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt is active and is in use. type: LUKS1 cipher: aes-xts-plain64 keysize: 512 bits key location: dm-crypt device: /dev/sda3 # pv /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt > /dev/zero ^C68GiB 0:00:05 [ 372MiB/s] Encryption costs me whopping 13 MB/s out of 385. And note that it's a 4 years old laptop (and it was pretty cheap when I bought it) with SSD surpassing its age. Reco
