[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#536415: Bug#536415: Bug#536415: cryptsetup: opening LUKS partitions takes several seconds

[Jonas Meurer]

On 13/07/2009 Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On 09/07/2009 Marcus Better wrote:
> > During boot, it takes around five seconds to unlock each
> > LUKS-encrypted LVM partition on my Thinkpad T61 with a 160 GB Western
> > Digital SATA disk. This is horrible for the boot time since I have six
> > encrypted partitions.
> > 
> > Oddly enough it takes around two seconds on a very similar Thinkpad
> > R60 with an 80 GB drive.
> > 
> > I also tried creating a 4 MB LVM volume and set up LUKS encryption on
> > the running system. Opening it takes around two seconds, and this is
> > without even clearing the cache between tests.
> 
> I can imagine that this is due to udevsettle being invoked everytime
> cryptsetup is run. This has been changed in subsequent releases. Could
> you give the packages at http://people.debian.org/~mejo/cryptsetup/ a
> try and report whether they fix your problem?

Hello Marcus,

did you already try the new packages (now in debian/sid)? I'm curious
about whether they fix this issue.

greetings,
 jonas
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