On 11/14/07, Clint Pachl  wrote:

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> Reading through the archives I have found several people say that

> encrypting via an svnd device isn't much slower than writing directly to

> a raw unencrypted disk. While I found this to be true for svnd devices

> backed by files, svnd devices backed by whole disks and disk partitions

> are extremely slow.

This is really really really weird. You'd think that files, having the

filesystem to go through before getting to the disk, would necessarily

be slower. There must be some kind of weirdness with the thing.
-Nick