Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:38:07 -0400 From: Graham Todd <gtodd@bellanet.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Encrypted zfs? Message-ID: <46D5D92F.4070608@bellanet.org> In-Reply-To: <46D5B46D.5010202@gmail.com> References: <46D4EFFF.5080807@fusiongol.com> <46D5B46D.5010202@gmail.com>
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Christian Walther wrote: > Nathan Butcher wrote: >> Yep, using GELI the providers is much better. >> I decided to go one step further and run GLABEL on my drives so my ZFS >> pool will be immune from device enumeration issues (assuming I move the >> drives between systems, SATA raid cards, etc.) [...] > > AFAIK zfs is immune against device enumeration issues itself. There is a > nice video on YouTube showing Sun engineers setting up a ZFS pool on a > bunch of USB sticks. Afterwards they remove all of them, shuffle them, > and put them back in. No problem. > (It's in german and a translation is still missing. But the talk is > stupid anyway, and the acting of the engineers, too.) > This works on FreeBSD, too. As long as you "umount" the filesystem before you pull that USB key? Presumably panicking when a filesystem disappears is a limitation of both UFS and ZFS on FreeBSD :-) > I moved one of my disks to another controller. > ZFS recognised it on reboot. Really nice. :-) Truly having ZFS on FreeBSD *is* really nice. It's amazing how many people are testing and using it at this relatively early stage - probably more on FreeBSD than on Solaris! Kudos and thanks to Pavel for this work.
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