Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme
>Le 26/09/2010 21:02, Celejar wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:29:28 +0200
>> Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Here's my opinion:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> * I think encryption is not well suited for a desktop system, unless
>> you have some special need for it (e.g. laptop). It creates extra
>> overhead, meaning it is a lot slower then a normal file system + it
>> makes disaster recovery more difficult.
>>
> I'm not sure that an encrypted filesystem is really "a lot slower than
> a normal file system" on modern HW. Do you have benchmarks or
> references?
>
> Celejar
Phoronix.com has some tests on a low specs Eee and a high end ThinkPad
W510 :
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_atom_disk&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_maverick_encryption&num=1
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