[clug] Ubuntu encrypted file systems

[Ian McLeod]

Is just LVM encryption secure enough for day to day use?  What's the 
advantage of also encrypting /home?

I thought the idea was to encrypt /home.

Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:09 +1000, Jim Croft wrote:
>   
>> is there a detectable/measurable performance hit with the encryption?
>>
>> jim
>>
>>     
>
> Not much, except where I have both the LVM and Home directory encryption
> enabled. There is a noticeable lag when working on files in ~/ and I
> won't use both again - just LVM. (I'm planning to re-install and put the
> 64 bit version of karmic on that laptop as soon as it reaches beta).
>
> Stephen.
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