zfs native encryption best practices on RELENG13

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Sat Apr 24 08:44:09 UTC 2021


On 4/23/21 11:23 PM, Xin Li via freebsd-stable wrote:

> I think loader do not support the native OpenZFS encryption yet.
> However, you can encrypt non-essential datasets on a boot pool (that is,
> if com.datto:encryption is "active" AND the bootfs dataset is not
> encrypted, you can still boot from it).

This is what my tests showed too (on 12.2 with OpenZFS from ports).

This is in contrast to what is written here:
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/FreeBSD.html

Can we get that page corrected?

  bye & Thanks
	av.


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