Degraded ZFS with encryption

[Ricky G]

> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:14:06 +1000
> From: newsgroups at rubenschade.com
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Degraded ZFS with encryption
> 
> On 24/08/2015 10:55 am, Ruben Schade wrote:
> >
> > Are there any further steps required to restore a drive in this
> > configuration?
> >
> 
> I’ve looked into this a bit further. It looks as though I'll need to 
> create a new GELI partition on the new drive I add, and then add it to 
> the ZFS pool. It'd need to be created with the same password/credentials 
> as the other drives so it’s unencrypted with the same single password on 
> boot.
> 
> Am I on the right track?

Yes. Think of it as layers. Hard Drive -> geli -> zfsLook in loader.conf and this may also help you.https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-encrypting.html