how does geli interact with ZFS?

[Alaksiej C]

GELI will do its work, and ZFS will do its work. Apart from natural
loss of speed, there's no difference in functioning of ZFS on bare
disk or GELI provider.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Michal <ml at infosec.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using root ZFS on geli encrypted partition (with /boot on UFS usb
> dongle). Does adding this extra layer between ZFS and disk can get me into
> troubles in case of a system crash?
> I mean, does it affects zfs's robustness and features like Copy-On-Write,
> checksumming or anything else? Or it can only get as bad as with plain ZFS
> and geom_eli has nothing to do with that.
>
> Michal
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