Depreciate and remove gbde
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Oct 20 01:47:07 UTC 2015
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.
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