From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 16 13:20:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4321065670 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:20:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ac@belngo.info) Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com (mail-fx0-f210.google.com [209.85.220.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5AAB8FC19 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so2341897fxm.43 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:20:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.48.131 with SMTP id r3mr1237538bkf.195.1255699225477; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:20:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AD79809.6010508@infosec.pl> References: <4AD79809.6010508@infosec.pl> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:20:25 +0300 Message-ID: <5709ce310910160620n3d3301c0x48e8ebcbe48e4931@mail.gmail.com> From: Alaksiej C To: Michal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how does geli interact with ZFS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:20:27 -0000 GELI will do its work, and ZFS will do its work. Apart from natural loss of speed, there's no difference in functioning of ZFS on bare disk or GELI provider. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Michal wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using root ZFS on geli encrypted partition (with /boot on UFS usb > dongle). Does adding this extra layer between ZFS and disk can get me into > troubles in case of a system crash? > I mean, does it affects zfs's robustness and features like Copy-On-Write, > checksumming or anything else? Or it can only get as bad as with plain ZFS > and geom_eli has nothing to do with that. > > Michal > -- > "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they > are." -Clive James > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >