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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2007 22:13:18 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=)
To:        Dennis Berger <db@nipsi.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: encrypt ZFS with geli
Message-ID:  <866470309t.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <46432346.1060202@nipsi.de> (Dennis Berger's message of "Thu, 10 May 2007 15:51:02 %2B0200")
References:  <46432346.1060202@nipsi.de>

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Dennis Berger <db@nipsi.de> writes:
> I would like to know whats the best way to encrypt zfs filesystem.
> Currently I created a zfs volume with zfs create -V4g data/test. Encrypt
> it with geli init /dev/zvol/data/test.
> And create a new zpool with zpool create encrypted /dev/zvol/data/test.eli.
> What do you suggest to do?

so you're running zfs on geli on zfs...

why not just run geli directly on the raw device and zfs on top of that?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no



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