Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 14:48:37 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenZFS from ports Message-ID: <74e71e6c-67e0-4195-88ef-6053d0bd1750@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <cd86bc07-b960-094b-5bc8-19739206ed8b@netfence.it> References: <cd86bc07-b960-094b-5bc8-19739206ed8b@netfence.it>
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On 03/04/2021 10:10, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > In the next few days I'm going to convert a 11.4 system from UFS + > UFS/GELI to ZFS. > In the past I would have created two sets of partitions, one for a zpool > and one for a zpool/GELI. > Of course this would be a limitation since the partition sizes are fixed > forever. > > I hear OpenZFS has native encryption, but I'm not prepared to move to 13 > yet, so I'm evaulating upgrading to 12.2 and using OpenZFS from ports. > Is this possible? Stable? Discouraged? > Anything to watch for? > Any disadvantage over GELI? > > > > My (not definitive) plan would be: > _ move everything to ZFS first (this would be to a new set of HDs, so I > could keep the old ones as backup), losing encryption; > _ upgrade to 12.2; > _ switch to OpenZFS; > _ create a new encrypted dataset and move there the data that should be > encrypted. > > Any better hint? How about ZFS on top of GELI encrypted disks? > I know kernel modules should be built locally, but I normally build with > poudriere and never had any trouble. > Would this work for sysutils/openzfs-kmod? -- The number of people predicting the demise of Moore's Law doubles every 18 months.
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