Questions on GELI encryption

[Alaksiej C]

> 1) Is there any basis for the claims that in the event
> of a failure (power outage, slowly dying drive, etc)
> that one is much more likely to lose ALL his data
> when using encryption vs not using any encryption?
> The argument is that when you have a non-encrypted

Dan,
The only "wrong" place, which if damaged will make your encrypted data
unusable is control block (metadata). As it was mentioned before, you
can back it up with "geli backup" command.

Though, if data is really valuable, it would be better to do backup
copies of it regularly regardless of encryption. And if you do, than,
speaking about probability of irreparable data loss, there's no
difference between encrypted and unencrypted HDD, slice etc.