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Re: Questions about loop-aes and the implementation of encryptedfilesystems

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:37:42PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
[...]
> Here is benhmark I ran some time ago on my 300 MHz Pentium-2 test box. ATA
> hard disk. Tests file reads and writes to ext2 file system partition.
> 
> KERNEL      IMPLEMENTATION  MODE                WRITE MiB/s     READ MiB/s
> 2.6.1       cryptoloop      single-key           5.21            4.08
> 2.6.1       loop-AES        single-key           9.52            7.56
> 2.6.1       loop-AES        multi-key(MD5 IV)    7.67            6.35
> 2.4.22aa1   loop-AES        single-key          10.55           10.16
> 2.4.22aa1   loop-AES        multi-key(MD5 IV)    8.75            8.13

Hhhmmm, will all the hype about the 2.6.x kernels and how great they
are, any ideas why a 2.4.x kernel performs better than 2.6.x under this
scenario?

Eloy.-

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