On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:58:57 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > what's on the leading edge regarding encrypted filesystems on linux > these days? everything suggests ecryptfs, but i just want to know > what the other viable (and relatively modern) alternatives are. > thanks. dm-crypt does block level encryption and is stackable with other block devices such as software raid and file systems. It is supposed to handle write barriers, but there have been some issues with that since work queues were added to the kernel.