Re: Problems encrypting disk partitions in 2.4.3

[Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> the reason you see the problems only on the first mkfs time is, because,
> as soon as you mount the fs, the kernel changes the transfer block size...
> and from that moment on, it stays there (unless the kernel has reason to
> change it again...)

long term solution would be to make the crypto use 512 byte block size and
coalesce to kernel transfer size... then it would be blocksize
independent?

-Dan


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