From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:44:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306214419.GA891@eisen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120306154101.39257e07@weird.wonkology.org>
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> 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.
> [...]
>
> 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.
Yes, it is also my experience that write performance on NTFS is very
suboptimal for bigger files.
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2012-01-10 0:20 [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance Alex Schuster
2012-03-06 14:41 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-06 21:44 ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
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