Hi all, I'm considering using device mapper's crypto support to encrypt the entirety of my laptop's drive. This is a fairly permanent thing to do, so I'm seeking some experiences with it to help me decide if it's a good idea or not.
I used it a few years back and found that it didn't play nice with XFS, causing frequent lockups, which wasn't really what I was looking for. It also burned a lot of cycles, making stuff like my frequent grepping through source trees and image processing impractical. Now, the target machine is much faster (a Thinkpad x61, C2D), but I don't really know how C2D crypto performance compares to Pentium M, so it'd be good to hear about that too. Finally, if I do go ahead with it, what's the easiest way to do it? I recall Ubuntu having an alternative installer that could do it for me. Is that the best way to go? Any and all insights appreciated. Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
