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Have you noticed crashes and general instability on OS X Lion + Filevault 2?

We've tried it on a Core2Duo Macbook Pro (early 2007) and MacBook (Mid 2010). We've seen lots of OS crashes (Macbook) and general performance issues when running XCode (Macbook Pro).

We're also running virtualization software on the Macs (Parallels and VMWare) - I'm not sure if they're interacting with Filevault 2 (shouldn't be).

Just wonder if anyone else has noticed this.



I use Lion's Filevault 2 on an early 2009 MBP and have not had any crashes or stability problems at all. FV2 on Lion is light years ahead of the broken Filevault 1 (Snow Leopard) implementation.


I use it on a 2011 Air and Mini without problems, and I'm just about always in Parallels on both machines.


no i have no problems. macbook air 2010 w/ lion + file vault active - no crashes or instability. i do time machine backups on a regular basis and work with Xcode, photoshop, iWork, vmware fusion - never had any problem.




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