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Re:LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Wi... by Aloha on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:05AM (#9669608)
The same reason that Linux has 9 major file systems - because we can, and its free software, which means personal choice is paramount.
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Re:LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Wi... by venomsnake on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:45AM (#9669718)
In encryption one or two properly implemented and audited is better than 10 flawed ...
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Re:LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Wi... by Aloha on Saturday June 06, 2015 @02:24AM (#9669937)
Thats sorta what I'm implying - I'd rather have 2 good filesystems rather then 9 options each with their own differing set of corner and edge cases.
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Re:LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Wi... by venomsnake on Saturday June 06, 2015 @02:40AM (#9669963)
Sorry. Sarcasm gets missed sometimes on the internet.
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Re:LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Wi... by SSLy on Saturday June 06, 2015 @10:49AM (#9670969)
I count three of them: ext4, xfs and btrfs. Did I miss any other general purpose FS that is still significant? (No, JFS and Reiser aren't, sorry.)
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Re:LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Wi... by imaginenore on Saturday June 06, 2015 @03:02PM (#9671830)
So you defined 3 systems as "significant", and are challenging to name more, when you know ahead of time nothing else falls under your definition. So brave!

According to Google Trends, JFS is the third most popular file system on Linux, and Reiser is #1. F2FS is pretty big too, and it's the fastest on Linux 4 / SSD:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-40-...

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