From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 11 19:35:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C51106566C for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:35:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benschumacher@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0968FC16 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so1747879pwi.3 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:34:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=66/gcKaGQH6bl6JP5zQLOWTSuN+rAAzwNgfNywIX73k=; b=UtunBnxHrgUkiRPewFXLdBm/CsyAJXoJrxc6dzyuWhDf0TLQoW0MwKP8tRNIqlKZMP AljALtstP5sDK1CUBxCWA06xx3pGnr8TxeCI9cCMZdmnhOfhXEDaL2dssDuj9wRkLwxS cKhxwVInolrEBvk+iipYchhMwAHaEnR7yu1Qw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=poIfBXSJqb3ZRIytKBZkRCXenCMiH7Vr4Kr+mwLesdmO7cXdqbiJ1Hgka9tPNbZU4q 630+NbAO56F+XFwMrqinAXjWQo9hS340pnYRQ405QwTzeb3yCv/uUOlIg+b41hKpIe05 SXvapfHV1YhXVfJJkmWSWNcSF1r0KQwbVi7vE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.120.1 with SMTP id s1mr2852739wfc.245.1263236955844; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:09:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:09:15 -0700 Message-ID: <9859143f1001111109m7156d92fk9443b347ddb9441a@mail.gmail.com> From: Ben Schumacher To: Dan Naumov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French Subject: Re: ZFS on top of GELI X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:35:07 -0000 On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Pete French > How fast is the CPU in the system showing no overhead? Having no > noticable overhead whatsoever sounds extremely unlikely unless you are > actually using it on something like a very modern dualcore or better. IIRC, GELI can take advantage of hardware acceleration for encryption, so I'd bet that a slower CPU with hardware crypto (Via Nano, for example) would probably be fast enough too. I've actually got one of these at home, I might have to check this out and see how it runs. Cheers, Ben