Bug 488722 - Properly align encrypted LV - LUKS device
Summary: Properly align encrypted LV - LUKS device
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: encrypted_LVM
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Reported: 2009-03-05 13:56 UTC by Milan Broz
Modified: 2013-03-01 04:07 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-05 06:59:51 UTC
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Description Milan Broz 2009-03-05 13:56:42 UTC
Description of problem:

If user select "encrypt" LV during isntallation (LUKS over LVM), the LUKS metadata are now aligned by default to 4k boundary.

Please set alignment according to LVM extent size.

For cryptsetup luksFormat add --align-payload <#of sectors in extent>,
if using pycryptsetup, set align_payload in options.

For example, if using 4MB extent size in LVM, use
--align-payload 8192

This setting:

1) optimizes performance if running over some MD raid or similar device
(lvm now aligns offset of LVs automatically for MD devices)

2) allows future upgrade to LVM2 without cryptsetup when LVM2 will support encrypted LVs directly

(I think anaconda uses default 4MB extent, so this change should be just modification of default paramaters.)

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-03-26 19:26:10 UTC
We are currently pretty tied up in a rewrite of the storage code, so we don't really have the extra time to work on this for F11.  However, if you come up with a patch against the anaconda-storage-branch branch of anaconda and submit it to anaconda-devel-list, we will gladly review it for possible inclusion.  Thanks.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 11:54:06 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2009-09-23 15:39:57 UTC
Closing for now due to comment #1.  If you come up wit ha patch, feel free to reopen this bug and send it along for consideration.  Thanks.

Comment 4 Milan Broz 2009-09-23 15:58:11 UTC
Closing this bug makes possible future conversion to encrypted lvm2 of already existing volumes impossible.

Also it has already serious performance impact (the whole device stack is misaligned now because cryptsetup aligns data to 4k offset)...

Well, I am not anaconda developer and have no time to study code myself... so leaving it wontfix.

Comment 5 Milan Broz 2009-11-09 16:51:41 UTC
Reopening that for rawhide, it's quite important to have all storage stack devices aligned.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 09:50:50 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:59:51 UTC
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