Bug#381135: crypto installs in german, french, spanish

[Max Vozeler <max@nusquama.org>]

reassign 381135 partman-crypto
retitle 381135 Inaccurate progressbar during wipe
thanks

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 03:42:15PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote:
> ...
> The tasks in tasksel ("Desktop environment", ..) were not
> translated into the respective languages but shown in english.
> I think in previous installs they used to be translated. Other
> than that the translations looked fine from what I could tell
> with my limited knowledge of spanish and french :-)

Christian already reported this in #381142, which leaves the
progressbar issue for partman-crypto.

> I also noticed one thing related to wiping partitions in
> preparation of encryption: The progressbar shown while
> blockdev-wipe runs was wildly inaccurate. It proceeded to 100%
> very quickly and then remained there for close to ten seconds.
> Overall the wipe seemed to complete too quickly compared the
> speed that this old harddisk is capable of (~3MB/s). I'll
> reassign this to partman-crypto and investigate.

I'm currently testing the performance impact of opening the
device with O_SYNC.

cheers,
Max