[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS encryption

Shawn Webb lattera at gmail.com
Tue May 29 13:08:12 UTC 2012


As discussed in the FREEBSD developer's summit, ZFS encryption is in the
works (though, still in the design phase). It'll be implemented via feature
flags.
On May 29, 2012 7:05 AM, "Armin Maier" <ma2412 at gmx.de> wrote:

> The plan is to store the backup as live ZFS filesystem, the final concept
> is not ready yet. What we know is that the remote location is not owned by
> us. At this time we are discussing the two possibilities of buying hardware
> ourself, host it at a company and share the storage over NFS to place
> VMWare disk Images on it, the second option is that the company offers us
> Diskspace, so we do not have to buy hardware ourself but have to pay a
> higher rent. We first have to test if this solution offers sufficient
> performance, or if it would be better to run a VM at the remote company and
> replicate the filesystem between servers.
> What did you mean with easily encrypt snapshots, how could that be done?
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