On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:17:58 +0100 (CET) David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> wrote:
> Hello, > > I would like to ask you. Does anybody have a real life experience with a > few TB large encrypted vnd(4) image which hosts a filesystem which is > intensively written to and read from? In such a setup where the host > device is a 4k-byte sector drive and the vnd(4) emulates a 512-byte sector > device, is it robust enough? I suppose the vnd sectors would be used in > groups of eight or more (4096-byte fragments) and would be aligned to the > host drive sectors. Are there any issues? Is the double filesystem > overhead and double buffering a problem? > > AFAIK, it is the only alternative to softraid crypto discipline for > 4k-byte sector drives now. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > David > Hi, I have two external USB disks, 3TB and 4TB, in use like that. So far no problems, even after hard reboots (power outage). They are used for backups, and it's USB 2.0 - so I can't really say much about "intense writing"... kind regards, Robert
