Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Introduce the bulk IV mode for improving the crypto engine efficiency

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jan 12 2016 - 18:39:21 EST


On Tuesday 12 January 2016 18:31:19 Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> Another possibility is to use dm-crypt block size 4k and use a filesystem
> with 4k blocksize on it (it will never send requests not aligned on 4k
> boundary, so we could reject such requests with an error).

Is there ever a reason to use something other than 4K block size on
dm-crypt?

Arnd