From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:41:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306154101.39257e07@weird.wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0B8448.4040605@wonkology.org>
Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote:
> I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both
> are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt
> container file where I need to store the data into.
>
> This is sort of working, but the speed is waayyyy too slow. After about
> four hours, only 8 G were copied.
[...]
The problem was the TrueCrypt container file. What I did instead was to
format the whole drive as a TruCrypt volume, which took about two hours I
think. When I mounted the partition, copying speed was as fast as it
should be.
Wonko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 0:20 [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance Alex Schuster
2012-03-06 14:41 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2012-03-06 21:44 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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