Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:52:19 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: "freebsd-stable stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> Subject: Re: zpool on a zvol inside zpool Message-ID: <op.w0r55hw98527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> In-Reply-To: <51ECE783.8050207@norma.perm.ru> References: <51ECE783.8050207@norma.perm.ru>
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:04:19 +0200, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz@norma.perm.ru> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm moving some of my geli installation to a new machine. On an old > machine it was running UFS. I use ZFS on a new machine, but I don't have > an encrypted main pool (and I don't want to), so I'm kinda considering a > way where I will make a zpool on a zvol encrypted by geli. Would it be > completely insane (should I use UFS instead ?) or would it be still > valid ? > > Thanks. > Eugene. I think that depends on your configuration and situation. If you have a spare disk to use for GELI+UFS. That is more simple to configure/maintain. But if you are running a big fileserver than the overhead of ZFS+GELI+UFS might be negligible. Ronald.
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