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Multivolume encrypyted Btrfs RAID

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi all, In my ongoing struggles with F17, after badblocks and SMART confirmed the good health of my drives, I decided to dump the mdraid set-up that keeps going flaky on my machine and use Btrfs RAID instead. Obviously, Anaconda doesn't support Btrfs properly yet, so I instead installed single-volume ext4 versions of /, /var, /tmp and /home (as well as boot partitions and swap of course). All but the boot and root partitions are encrypted. To lessen the boot-time overhead of having six separate encrypted partitions in the final set-up, I used LVM with one encrypted physical volume on e (HowTos)

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