On 17/04/2021 21:18, Karl Denninger wrote:
This also makes "geli groups" trivial in /etc/rc.conf for attachment at
boot time irrespective of whether they physically come up in the same
place (again typically yes, but in the case of a failure or you plug it
into a different adapter.)
On 17/04/2021 21:06, Alan Somers wrote:
The answer depends on why you want to partition in the first place.
What do you intend to store on those disks besides ZFS? If the answer
is nothing, then don't bother partitioning; just write ZFS over GELI
over the whole disk.
Well, actually thats
On Sat., Apr. 17, 2021, 1:04 p.m. Clayton Milos, wrote:
> I encrypt the whole disk and then add it to the pool. No need to partition
> it. If I remember correctly zfs prefers unpartitioned disks
>
ZFS on Solaris used to require the use of entire, raw disks as the cache
was disabled if the disk
On 4/17/2021 15:52, Pete French wrote:
So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done
is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and
encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli.
But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and then partition the
en
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 1:53 PM Pete French
wrote:
> So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done
> is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and
> encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli.
>
> But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and the
I encrypt the whole disk and then add it to the pool. No need to partition it.
If I remember correctly zfs prefers unpartitioned disks.
\\Clay
> On 17 Apr 2021, at 21:54, Pete French wrote:
>
> So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done is to
> partition the disc
So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done
is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and
encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli.
But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and then partition the
encrypted disc, or indded just put the zpo
