On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:09:39 +0100, Ralf wrote:

> Btrfs supports Raid10 but no block-crypto.
> 
> If I would use a HD->MD Raid->Luks->Btrfs stack, I don't benefit from
> the Raid implementation of Btrfs.

Nor do you get the automatic repair of corruption that btrfs RAID offers.

> If I would use a HD->Luks->Btrfs stack, then I would have to use four
> different LUKS devices, which results in four individual encryptions
> (and I don't have AES-NI, so this would be a tremendous slowdown).

It would definitely be slower, but maybe not "tremendously".
 
> What would be the best way to have a Raid 10 together with a encrypted
> Btrfs?

What about crypto on top of btrfs using a stacked filesystem like
ecryptfs?


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Neil Bothwick

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