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Out-of-the-Box, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Support TRIM On SSDs
First time accepted submitter Maurits van der Schee writes "Where in older versions you had to add a cron job calling "fstrim" or mounting with the "discard" option in fstab, the new LTS (Long Term Stable) version of Ubuntu Linux will automatically enable TRIM for your SSD. Good news for hardware enthusiasts!"
This is way overdue.
It's also taking too long for file systems that provide snapshot features to become mainstream and default as well. And no, LVM snapshots aren't good enough.
No, I'm not going to write the patches. They wouldn't be accepted in any case. Fundamental features such as the IO stack and file systems are now the exclusive purview of well-heeled outfits like Red Hat, Oracle, Intel, OSDL, etc. and and their stable of full time developers.
They just need to do their jobs and get it done.
Dude, youre overstating the threat.
If the drive is encrypted, theres no more or less threat from brute-forcing.
From a plausible deniability standpoint, Im not terribly sure how helpful that is ANYWAYS. If someone wants to know if youre using truecrypt, they could, I dont know, look at the MBR and see whether its using the Truecrypt bootloader. The idea that you can say "What partition?" when goons grab your mysteriously unreadable laptop is laughable. Im sure there are super corner cases where that would be helpful, but generally if youre being held by the sorts of people who have the means and ability to do rubber hose cryptography, theyre not going to put up with your BS about "but wait look i gave you a password that boots to an Ubuntu partition which only accounts for 1/2 of the drive's size, and has no data worth encrypting whatsoever!"
Being involved with multiple organizations which employ encryption for very different reasons, none of them use plausible deniability / hidden encryptions; Id reckon because its not terribly helpful, or even plausible.