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On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:48:57 -0500
Adam Vande More wrote:


> Additionally I prefer geli over gbde since it supports a wider
> variety of feature and is perhaps more secure.  See the corresponding
> handbook and man pages for details.

I think it's unfortunate that the handbook gives so much prominence to
gbde. Most people using it switched to geli when it came out, and it
doesn't seemed have any development since then. I don't see any good
reason to put it on a new partition, geli is better all round.