On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 18:24 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 12:02 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:00:38PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote: > > > > 2. LUKS2 prefers Argon2 as the key derivation function, designed to > > > > use a lot of memory. kdump is expected to use a minimal amount of > > > > memory. Users will have to reserve a huge amount of memory for kdump > > > > to work (eg. 1G reserve for kdump with 4G total memory which is not > > > > reasonable). > > > > > > I'm just going to sympathise with you rather than provide a good > > > answer here ... We had the same problem in libguestfs where Argon2 > > > used too much memory for our small appliance when opening LUKS2 disks. > > > We had to simply increase the amount of memory reserved, which is far > > > from ideal. > > > > Or you could switch to use PBKDF2, it is still a supported and > > reasonable option. > > libguestfs has to open whatever disk image the user gives it, and whoever > built the image originally decided whether it uses Argon2 or PBKDF2.
My bad, I thought you were creating new partitions. Yeah argon2 has that "problem". In theory there is a tradeoff between memory vs CPU power, but it seem our implementation decided to go for memory and not give the option to use the more time consuming but less memory hungry algorithm. Simo. > Regards, > Daniel > -- > > : https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange > > :| > > : https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com > > :| > > : https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange > > :| > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure -- Simo Sorce RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
