zpool on a zvol inside zpool

[Thomas Steen Rasmussen]

On 22-07-2013 10:04, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm moving some of my geli installation to a new machine. On an old
> machine it was running UFS. I use ZFS on a new machine, but I don't have
> an encrypted main pool (and I don't want to), so I'm kinda considering a
> way where I will make a zpool on a zvol encrypted by geli. Would it be
> completely insane (should I use UFS instead ?) or would it be still
> valid  ?
Hello,

I've used this setup for a while on several servers, it works but
it is slow. I am migrating my servers to have two zpools instead,
a small one with the base system and nothing else, the other one
on top of a geli device. This performs much better and is IMO a
better solution. YMMV :)

I have this method documented on my wiki here:
http://wiki.tyk.nu/index.php?title=Ezjail_host#Further_disk_configuration


Best regards,

Thomas Steen Rasmussen