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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:01:03 -0700
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        Ryan Moeller <freqlabs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenZFS port updated
Message-ID:  <679853e2-6113-1daa-3353-d9c5a1123a0f@nomadlogic.org>
In-Reply-To: <0ED41E6B-9C57-405B-84BE-1161F012A974@FreeBSD.org>
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On 4/17/20 2:54 PM, Ryan Moeller wrote:
>> On Apr 17, 2020, at 4:56 PM, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/17/20 11:35 AM, Ryan Moeller wrote:
>>> FreeBSD support has been merged into the master branch of the openzfs/zfs repository, and the FreeBSD ports have been switched to this branch.
>> Congratulations on this effort - big milestone!
>>> OpenZFS brings many exciting features to FreeBSD, including:
>>>   * native encryption
>> Is there a good doc reference on available for using this?  I believe this is zfs filesystem level encryption and not a replacement for our existing full-disk-encryption scheme that currently works?
> I’m not aware of a good current doc for this. If anyone finds/writes something, please post it!
> There are some old resources you can find with a quick search that do a pretty good job of covering the basic ideas, but I think the exact syntax of commands may be slightly changed in the final implementation.
>
> The encryption is performed at a filesystem level (per-dataset).

thanks for the clarification Ryan.  I may try to test this out in the 
near future and will try to record my findings in a wiki or somewhere.  
being able to do filesystem level encryption is something i have several 
immediate use cases for.

thanks!
-p

-- 
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA




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