state of the art WRT encrypted filesystems?

[Tom Horsley]

>   what's on the leading edge regarding encrypted filesystems on linux
> these days?  everything suggests ecryptfs, but i just want to know
> what the other viable (and relatively modern) alternatives are.
> thanks.

I like truecrypt for its fanatical features, but it is a pain
in the patoot to keep the driver up to date because it won't
build with just the normal kernel-devel package installed, you
have to dig up the full kernel source to get a header it needs.

For details see: http://www.truecrypt.org/