Why ZFS encryption is not supported in FreeBSD 10?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 18 00:27:35 UTC 2014


On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 23:52:42 +0000
M Barrassed wrote:

> Does anyone know why ZFS whole-disk encryption is supported in the
> FreeBSD 10 installer, but not in the zfs/zpool tools?

Encryption would involve putting ZFS on top of geli. AFAIK there is no
native encryption in open-source ZFS, so it wouldn't be in the ZFS
tools.


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