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Re: Problems encrypting disk partitions in 2.4.3



On Thu, 10 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:

> 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?

exactly... (assuming 512 bytes are the smallest possible blocksize...)

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