Wow.. This is a long post. :-D On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 06:15 +0100, Richard Fish wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > > > >This is where things get complex. On top of the RAID0 array, I use > >loop-AES for encryption. (/dev/loop/0). THAT in turn is my physical > >volume for the LVM setup. The problem with this is that the memory used > >by my initrd is *never* freed by the system, because two device nodes > >(/dev/md0, /dev/loop/0) get locked by the initrd sequence. So I have > >stripped my initrd down as much as reasonably possible, and it now fits > >in 2M of memory (with 1G of ram, I don't miss the 2M...really. ;->) > >Note that 2M is the uncompressed size.
[Big SNIP] your explanation seems logical but I won't know until I tried it out. Before I do that, I just need to ask. 1. What laptop 2. CPU/RAM/HD motor speed. I only want to know what sort of performance impact there would be if I start running everything on the laptop as encrypted. Okay.. I may not be as "cautious" as you, so I may end up encrytping only my /home but good info. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:34:00 up 17:30, 4 users, load average: 1.06, 0.63, 0.48 -- [email protected] mailing list
