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To: "freebsd-stable stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Eugene M. Zheganin"
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Subject: Re: zpool on a zvol inside zpool
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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.