ZFS on top of GELI

[Pete French]

> GELI+ZFS and Debian Linux with MDRAID and cryptofs. Has anyone here
> made any benchmarks regarding how much of a performance hit is caused
> by using 2 geli devices as vdevs for a ZFS mirror pool in FreeBSD (a

I havent done it directly on the same boxes, but I have two systems
with idenitical drives, each with a ZFS mirror pool, one wth GELI, and
one without. Simple read test shows no overhead in using GELI at all.

I would recommend using the new AHCI driver though - greatly
improves throughput.

-pete.