ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

[Ronald Klop]

On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:34:57 +0200, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Now that I have evaluated the numbers and my needs a bit, I am really
> confused about what appropriate course of action for me would be.
>
> 1) Use ZFS without GELI and hope that zfs-crypto get implemented in
> Solaris and ported to FreeBSD "soon" and that when it does, it won't
> come with such a dramatic performance decrease as GELI/ZFS seems to
> result in.
> 2) Go ahead with the original plan of using GELI/ZFS and grind my
> teeth at the 24 MB/s read speed off a single disk.

3) Add extra disks. It will speed up reading. One disk extra will about  
double the read speed.

Ronald.