> How is this advantageous over dmcrypt-LUKS?

TRIM pass-through for SSD's. With dmcrypt on an SSD write performance
is very slow.

> LUKS has always been supported between the block device and a btrfs
> filesystem, and would not even let an attacker discern what type of
> file-system was in use.

cryptsetup-1.4.0-1 have --enable-discards option to allow
discards/TRIM, but it is not recommended for theoretical security
reasons.

>From my understanding some btrfs features wouldn't work with dmcrypt,
like "online volume growth and shrinking"?
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