Gary Winiger wrote: >> Darren and I talked about the areas of overlap between >> lofi encryption and lofi compression. Here's a summary >> of what we talked about - >> >> Compressed lofi images are read-only so it makes sense >> to allow either compression or encryption on an image >> but not both at the same time. > > I can understand doing both may be ETOOHARD or > ENOTWORTHIT, and I don't see why it isn't architecturally > correct to compress then encrypt/decrypt then expand.
ENOTWORTHIT because we already have compression support in ZFS and crypto is being added in such away that we *will* be able to compress then encrypt (decrypt then decompress). -- Darren J Moffat
