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I don't think this is reasonable. If you lose power, the the volume is toast as I understand it.

• Astrohacker 15y ago
  Obviously you should back it up, like you would be doing anyway.
• andrewcooke 15y ago
  if i'm understanding you correctly, you're wrong. it's just another layer in the system (one more function in the mapping from your data to magnetic patterns - a function that's completely reasonable, predictable, etc, just hard to guess). the problem is that you need to enter the password on boot, which makes automated startup difficult. for example, my laptop disk's main partition is encrypted. i need to enter the password when i boot, but nothing terrible happens if i lose power or the system crashes or whatever.