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Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space
Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more.
Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more. This inline mode currently works with select enterprise NVMe SSDs and can be used for overcoming the performance bottleneck of the DM-INTEGRITY journal. For integritysetup, the kernel dm-integrity layer is still used, but it directly maps metadata to the hardware (eliminating the journal).
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