Bug#1064624: Hard to short-stroke an encrypted drive
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 11:42:37PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 25/02/2024 at 05:40, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > The partitioner "guided partitioning" offers me:
> >
> > - use the largest continuous free space
> > - use entire disk
> > - use entire disk and set up LVM
> > - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM
> >
> > I want "use largest contiguous space and set up encrypted LVM".
> > That would let me reserve 200GB of my SSD as unencrypted free space,
> > which will improve the write endurance of my SSD.
>
> Alternatively, the installer allows to reserve free space in the encrypted
> volume group.
That does not accomplish my goal of extending the life of my SSD. The
SSD will see those blocks as "in use" because they have encrypted data
written to them (it cannot tell that they are encrypted blocks of zeroes
because, well, they're encrypted).
The unused area has to be part of the unencrypted disk. And then I have
to call TRIM on it.
> > Also once I start partitioning, eg, "and set up LVM", I can't delete the
> > partitions again.
>
> The installer allows to delete logical volumes, volume groups and
> unencrypted partitions formerly used as physical volumes, but not encrypted
> volumes nor their underlying partitions.
Yes. This is a poor experience.
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