encrypt ZFS with geli

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu May 10 20:13:22 UTC 2007


Dennis Berger <db at nipsi.de> writes:
> I would like to know whats the best way to encrypt zfs filesystem.
> Currently I created a zfs volume with zfs create -V4g data/test. Encrypt
> it with geli init /dev/zvol/data/test.
> And create a new zpool with zpool create encrypted /dev/zvol/data/test.eli.
> What do you suggest to do?

so you're running zfs on geli on zfs...

why not just run geli directly on the raw device and zfs on top of that?

DES
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