ZFS on top of GELI

[Ben Schumacher]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Pete French
> How fast is the CPU in the system showing no overhead? Having no
> noticable overhead whatsoever sounds extremely unlikely unless you are
> actually using it on something like a very modern dualcore or better.

IIRC, GELI can take advantage of hardware acceleration for encryption,
so I'd bet that a slower CPU with hardware crypto (Via Nano, for
example) would probably be fast enough too. I've actually got one of
these at home, I might have to check this out and see how it runs.

Cheers,
Ben