On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:35:50AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > PJD> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:34:11PM +0100, Hugo Silva wrote: > PJD> > How's the performance on the geli-backed pool ? > PJD> > PJD> It depends a lot on CPU speed, but you should be ready for visible > PJD> performance drop. I'll give you two examples: > > [examples snipped] > > PJD> But don't you worry, when you must have encryption, you don't really > PJD> care about performance. And when you decided not to use encryption, > PJD> because it introduces too big overhead, it only means that you didn't > PJD> need encryption in the first place:) > > Well, I suppose most usage patterns imply that only part of data really needs > encryption (as only part really needs copies>1 or compression), hence it would > be *extremely* useful if one can ``zfs set encryption=on tank/home/joe'' > (could it be done via pluggable geom modules or something?) No, it can't be done that way. You cannot put a GEOM module inside ZFS. The good news is that ZFS encryption support is in development. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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