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Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme



On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:29:28 +0200
Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's my opinion:

...

> * I think encryption is not well suited for a desktop system, unless
> you have some special need for it (e.g. laptop). It creates extra
> overhead, meaning it is a lot slower then a normal file system + it
> makes disaster recovery more difficult.

I'm not sure that an encrypted filesystem is really "a lot slower than
a normal file system" on modern HW.  Do you have benchmarks or
references?

Celejar
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