EFI GELI support ready for testers

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at puchar.net
Wed Jun 1 14:29:28 UTC 2016


> It's undesirable because the whole point of ZFS is to have one ZFS volume for the whole system.
This sounds more like a religious dogma than anything else.

what if i run single disk (or mirrored 2 disk) system, no ZFS but i want 
everything encrypted by GELI and want only ona partition?

Will you write special bootloader that would be hidden unencrypted on geli 
volume?

Will you write 10000 special bootloaders to cope with 10000 cases of 
configuration FreeBSD admins want to have in the world?

Or maybe - in the future admins would not be allowed to decide and there 
will be only one allowed storage configuration - ZFS volume occupying all 
disks, with bootloader designed for that one case?

Seems i made about year ago a right decision to stick to 
FreeBSD-10.(between 0 and 1) and then manually apply only security patches 
and once backport needed driver from newer one....



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