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by antongribok 932 days ago
Btrfs does not have native encryption.

I use LUKS / dm-crypt on entire drive partitions. Did that with ZFS too, and by the time ZFS got this feature I was already planning my migration to btrfs.

I like encrypting with LUKS, because I can have a drive configured with mine and my wife's password. Either one of us can take that drive, plug it in, and Gnome will put a nice graphical prompt asking for a password, then decrypt the drive and mount the filesystem.

If I get hit by a bus, LUKS makes it much easier for my family to get access to important data without having to have that data sit around somewhere in plaintext.