Encrypted zfs?

Gerrit Kühn gerrit at pmp.uni-hannover.de
Wed Aug 29 00:45:58 PDT 2007


On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:35:50 +0400 (MSD) Dmitry Morozovsky
<marck at rinet.ru> wrote about Re: Encrypted zfs?:

DM> Well, I suppose most usage patterns imply that only part of data
DM> really needs encryption (as only part really needs copies>1 or
DM> compression), hence it would be *extremely* useful if one can ``zfs
DM> set encryption=on tank/home/joe'' (could it be done via pluggable geom
DM> modules or something?)

I think I read somewhere that Sun is working on encryption features for
zfs. Maybe it is a good idea to let them come up with their solution
first.


cu
  Gerrit


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