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Happy happy joy! I've been using it for a year already, as it is simpler to manage than luks + lvm + bcache + whatever FS.
It has been entirely unproblematic through frequent kernel upgrades; caching, background compression and encryption just work.
I'm very glad it made it in; it deserves wider adoption.