Re: FreeBSD root on a geli-encrypted ZFS pool

2012-03-18 Thread Fabian Keil
"Matthew X. Economou" wrote: > Fabian Keil writes: > > Anyway, it's a test without file system so the ZFS overhead isn't > > measured. I wasn't entirely clear about it, but my assumption was > > that the ZFS overhead might be big enough to make the difference > > between HMAC/MD5 and HMAC/SHA256

RE: FreeBSD root on a geli-encrypted ZFS pool

2012-03-10 Thread Matthew X. Economou
Fabian Keil writes: > In my opinion protecting ZFS's default checksums (which cover > non-metadata as well) with GEOM_ELI is sufficient. I don't see > what advantage additionally enabling GEOM_ELI's integrity > verification offers. I follow you now. You may be right about the extra integrity che

Re: FreeBSD root on a geli-encrypted ZFS pool

2012-03-09 Thread Fabian Keil
"xenophon\\+freebsd" wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Fabian Keil [mailto:freebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:49 AM > > It's not clear to me why you enable geli integrity verification. > > > > Given that it is single-sector-based it seems inferior

RE: FreeBSD root on a geli-encrypted ZFS pool

2012-03-07 Thread xenophon\+freebsd
> -Original Message- > From: Fabian Keil [mailto:freebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de] > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:49 AM Thanks for your comments! > It's not clear to me why you enable geli integrity verification. > > Given that it is single-sector-based it seems inferior to ZFS's > int

Re: FreeBSD root on a geli-encrypted ZFS pool

2012-03-07 Thread Fabian Keil
"xenophon\\+freebsd" wrote: > I have posted revised instructions for installing FreeBSD to an > encrypted ZFS pool on my blog: > > https://web.irtnog.org/~xenophon/blog/revised-freebsd-root-zfs-geli > > The entire procedure is documented in a way suitable for scripting. I > would be very inter

FreeBSD root on a geli-encrypted ZFS pool

2012-03-07 Thread xenophon\+freebsd
Hi all, I have posted revised instructions for installing FreeBSD to an encrypted ZFS pool on my blog: https://web.irtnog.org/~xenophon/blog/revised-freebsd-root-zfs-geli The entire procedure is documented in a way suitable for scripting. I would be very interested in the community's feedback.