[CentOS] Best configuration for encrypted software RAID 1?

Markus Falb wnefal at gmail.com
Tue May 21 19:53:39 UTC 2013


On 15.Mai.2013, at 18:22, Dave Johansen wrote:

> My main question is will it be better to encrypt the RAID itself or
> the two partitions used by the RAID?

encrypt data once and let md mirror the encrypted stuff
or
let md mirror and encrypt data twice, once per raid member.

Encryption is CPU hungry.
Performance wise the winner seems clear.
-- 
Markus



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