On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 07:06:40PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > It doesn't matter what the underlying block device reports because > > dm-crypt bounces the incoming plain text buffers to something aligned to > > the backing device for the cypher text. > > dm-crypt bounces writes, but doesn't bounce reads. When doing reads, it > reads the data into the target buffer and decompresses them in place.
Oh, thanks. It's been a while since I developed this, so I'll need a moment double check for any mistaken assumptions. It may be I just used backing devices that also had similar alignment constraints and missed something.
