From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S52CQ-0002zs-6L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:45:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FC08E0CAA; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BA85E098E for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Mar 2012 21:44:20 -0000 Received: from wl-l3-93.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO localhost) [141.24.17.93] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 06 Mar 2012 22:44:20 +0100 X-Authenticated: #4040096 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19mi0Vqo4VmU0Vq3wwLZqPB6zY1goHOxzQHh5VEBT O2YfTNLIuuydyL Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:44:19 +0100 From: Frank Steinmetzger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance Message-ID: <20120306214419.GA891@eisen.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4F0B8448.4040605@wonkology.org> <20120306154101.39257e07@weird.wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120306154101.39257e07@weird.wonkology.org> User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r1) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 702f8884-807c-4110-8451-01b3c3a0c8e9 X-Archives-Hash: c16c048927de8801b3b9c4c74e7a8276 --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > > 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. > [...] >=20 > 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. --=20 Gru=DF | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. ATARI! We make top-notch toasters affordable! --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9WhTIACgkQGafpl66MV0xXEwCgoxSjRKZsoTCnDRbHze/c1Kkc iL0AniqHvOwJKUQG34gkkHWE4b20pl0Y =APui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--