hard disk encryption for laptop

[Daniel Armstrong]

On 3/22/07, Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Daniel Armstrong <dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > - Do you notice a significant impact on encrypted drive performance vs
> > unencrypted? (I am installing on a Thinkpad T23, 1GHz, 256MB RAM)
>
> Just for comparisons - I'm using encFS and I do notice a performance
> drop when doing disk writes.  I've also managed to totally deadlock my
> system a few times, presumably from doing too many disk-related things
> at once.  Bleh.  But I expect that I'm rather unique in how hard I
> push things and how broken my setup has become.
>
> However, I'm quite pleased overall.
>
> Are you encrypting everything or just the user files?
>
> What about the swap?

I am looking at encrypting everything, including swap - /boot might be
an exception, since I am not sure if I will keep it on disk... or set
it up for use on a separate USB stick.
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