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• Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes that provides space efficiency, backup and restore, encryption, and volume replication.
• Longhorn has a new feature called strict local that allows for application-level replication instead of block-level replication.
• Longhorn provides encryption based on the Kubernetes secret resource to encrypt volumes.
• Longhorn has a recurring job mechanism for snapshot deletion and cleanup to save space.
• Longhorn has a checksum capability for data integrity and a replica placement strategy for data loss prevention.