Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:22:02 +0200 From: Thomas Steen Rasmussen <thomas@gibfest.dk> To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zpool on a zvol inside zpool Message-ID: <51ED400A.1080507@gibfest.dk> In-Reply-To: <51ECE783.8050207@norma.perm.ru> References: <51ECE783.8050207@norma.perm.ru>
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On 22-07-2013 10:04, Eugene M. Zheganin 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 ? Hello, I've used this setup for a while on several servers, it works but it is slow. I am migrating my servers to have two zpools instead, a small one with the base system and nothing else, the other one on top of a geli device. This performs much better and is IMO a better solution. YMMV :) I have this method documented on my wiki here: http://wiki.tyk.nu/index.php?title=Ezjail_host#Further_disk_configuration Best regards, Thomas Steen Rasmussen
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