On 2007-12-11 John C. Welch wrote:
> Actually, I don't think FV does on the fly encryption of every write
> you do, but I could be wrong there. That kind of encryption has a
> non-zero amount of overhead, and because you're talking about a lot of
> encryption/decryption throughout the day (even if you never recover
> something), that's a significant resouce hit.
It is. However, anything else would defeat the purpose of FileVault,
because then files would have to be cached unencrypted outside the
FileVault. AFAICS.
Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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