A really good reason to use encryption at the filesystem level is that you can use stream ciphers instead of block ciphers (because you have a place to store no

A really good reason to use encryption at the filesystem level is that you can use stream ciphers instead of block ciphers (because you have a place to store nonces). The current disk encryption is based on XTS, which has a section in wikipedia on it's weaknesses [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory#XTS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory#XTS