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Re:Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux by BiteCode_dev on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:25AM (#28630567)
Servers and consumer laptop are very different beast though, so not sure the comparison hold. You don't shut them off often, they don't go to sleep, rarely undergo shock, plane travel or forced shut down...
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Re:Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux by privacyxpert on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:15PM (#28636280)
Friend, LUKS is reliable. LUKS doesn't just eat data in those edgecases you talk about, there would be tons of reports if that were the case. LUKS is used all over the place for non-server uses too.

I can count at least 3 devices that are all LUKS-encrypted that are used as consumer devices daily. I trip over the power cord, I let the battery die, I drop it, I fly regularly, etc, etc. Never once had a single issue.

In fact, the single time that I've had FS issues under Linux was running under Hyper-V but that's because of the slowly-being-uncovered serious issues w/ Hyper-V.

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