On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Ed Maste wrote this message on Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 17:13 -0400: >> On 19 October 2015 at 16:50, John-Mark Gurney <jmg_at_funkthat.com> wrote: >>> O. Hartmann wrote this message on Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:19 +0200: >>>> For me, I'd like to know what is the benefit/performance of each technique and >>>> a clear preparation of each ones advantages over the other. That would make the >>>> decission process much easier and hopefully would not scare people away and >>>> announce "FreeBSD does not have a, b, c, ..." ... >>> >>> So, one thing that the docs talk about is that geli uses the crypto(9) >>> framework. This doesn't mean much on it's own, but if you have a machine >>> with AES-NI instructions or an accelerator card that supports the cipher >>> mode used, then you can get faster performance of hardware off load, >>> while gbde uses the software only routines which are slow.. >> >> John-Mark, thanks for listing these differences. This is the sort of >> information we should have available for end users to help choose one >> or the other -- this info ought to make it into the handbook. > > I'm working on updating the section now... > > Also realized we should include verbage to say that it's best to use > page size sectors when possible to reduce overhead of the crypto... I can help with markup and editing.Received on Mon Oct 19 2015 - 23:47:07 UTC
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