This is really prune to errors due to concurrency, race conditions, etc. There are several ways to do this "The Right Way": - you can just use LUKS and mount t

This is really prune to errors due to concurrency, race conditions, etc. There are several ways to do this "The Right Way": - you can just use LUKS and mount the db storage on top of it. - you can just use built-in encryption at rest [1] - etc. [1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/data-at-rest-encryption/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/data-at-rest-encryption/