Re: [PATCH 0/12: eCryptfs] eCryptfs version 0.1.6

From: Michael Halcrow
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 08:13:23 EST


On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:28:49AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > processing the 4096-byte extents. The second modification is that
> > the header region occupies either 8192 bytes or the page size of
> > the host on which the file is created, whichever is larger. This
> > maximizes the probability that pages will be aligned between the
> > unencrypted and encrypted data, which is not a requirement, but it
> > helps with performance.
>
> Does that mean that 10-bytes file now occupies 12KB disk space in
> common case of 4K filesystem?

Yes.

Mike
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