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  1. Bug #82528
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 82528

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: Write load on DM-Crypt LUKS partition with reiserfs jams system

This issue seems to be that you are doing it on an encrypted filesystem. The kernel obviously has to perform a lot of IO intermixed with computational overhead to do this.

I don't know if the performance problem is expected or not. It all depends on what encryption method you are using, etc.