Hugo Silva wrote:
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
lo all,
have a freebsd 7.0-beta4 machine attached to an external disk
enclosure and would like feedback on the following setup: have RAID-Z
on 4 disks, ZFS volume that takes up entire RAID-Z, use ZVOL from
volume for encryption via geli, use .eli (decrypted) device to make
another ZFS pool. the idea being "no time/resources wasted doing
fscks plus encryption sans hardware RAID".
Unless I'm misunderstanding your objective, geli'ing the disks and
creating a pool ontop of the encrypted disks (zpool create secure
raidz da0.eli da1.eli da2.eli da3.eli) would also work, and would be
far easier to maintain. Your data would still be encrypted and you
would still need to provide the passphrase to make the pool accessible.
this is a fine idea and removes a ZFS layer but i expect it will require
a short sh script (read input and pipe into loop over disks) unless i
want to enter a passphrase per disk. if anybody's already got such a
script, would be nice to have since my script skills are kinda weak.
will geli each of the disks and test it out to see if it is more stable
than the original config. thanks for your input, hugo!
cheers,
jake
Best regards,
Hugo
translated to commands this reads:
# zpool create p_a raidz /dev/mfid1 /dev/mfid2 /dev/mfid3 /dev/mfid4
# zpool list
NAMESIZEUSED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT
p_a2.72T 4.02G 2.71T 0% ONLINE -
# zfs create -V 2048g p_a/vol
# geli init -K /root/p_a.key -s 4096 -l 256 /dev/zvol/p_a/vol
# geli attach -k /root/p_a.key /dev/zvol/p_a/vol
# zpool create a /dev/zvol/p_a/vol.eli
i got a reboot while scp-ing some files to /a (only got ~3 GB in)
from another machine with the above setup. am currently waiting far
too long for a rm -R to complete under /a. will test if
any of this behavior is repeatable.
i welcome opinions or suggestions on the stability of such a setup
(ZFS-geli-ZFS) and if this is not stable, as the reboot i just
experienced would indicate, suggestions on alternative configurations
that allow use of geli and minimize or eliminate fsck time. i do have
a preference for no hardware RAID since it ties us to a particular
card. will furnish a proper bug report if the reboots are repeatable
in the aforementioned scenario.
NOTE: please CC me since i am not yet subscribed to this list
cheers,
jake
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