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Will using a compressed filesystem over an encrypted volume improve performance?

Encryption/decryption is often the main bottleneck when accessing an encrypted volume. Would using a filesystem with a fast transparent compression (such as BTRFS + LZO) help? The idea is that there ...
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How to debug/audit which devices cache writes?

I store documents on btrfs partition built upon sparse dm-crypt device located on ext4 main partition on physical harddrive. When kernel panics (and this happens on daily basis on my ASUS P53E with ...