As others, I'm running ZFS with native encryption on my daily driver Linux box (Arch). As others have said, I like the benefits, which are easy send/receive, e

As others, I'm running ZFS with native encryption on my daily driver Linux box (Arch). As others have said, I like the benefits, which are easy send/receive, etc (but mind the bugs some other commenter mentioned). I will also give a few drawbacks / points in favor of using LUKS. In my case, Arch usually has up-to-date kernels. These are not always compatible with the latest stable OpenZFS release. Issues go from benign: ultra-high CPU usage so my 980 PRO ssd is slower than spinning rust to the module not compiling at all. Another drawback is that booting with systemd in initramfs doesn't support zfs native encryption. There's no support for using a TPM [0]. So you have to type in your password every time you boot up the computer. If you want hibernation to work, you need a separate swap, encrypted separately, so that's two passwords to type in. Systemd recently got support for TPM so can automatically decrypt devices. I have this set up on a separate machine (with ext4) and it's nice. --- [0] I know not everyone likes the idea of automatically decrypting the drive, but that's another debate. If your threat model allows for this, it can be done with LUKS but not with ZFS.