Michael - ZFS will run on Linux, but is most at home on FreeBSD - and the
only way to boot from an encrypted partition that I have heard of. Might be
worth a look.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:29 PM Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net> wrote:
> Good to know, thanks for that.
>
> Encryption is high on my list, as aside from raid/redundancy, but would
> really like to find a better way vs. md+luks+lvm+fs to do
> hardware+encryption+volume management.
>
> I might try to reconstruct a device to do zfs, hoping it's more suitable
> for production than 2 years or so ago I tried it last. Then encryption was
> brand new and arch couldn't deal with booting off it.
>
> -mb
>
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 8:38 PM Todd Cole <toddc@azloco.com> wrote:
>
>> I have have been using ZFS raid for over a year on several servers
>> Proxmox both spinning and ssd's and ssd L2arc with spinning disks after the
>> learning curve I have nothing bad to say other than it does suck up ram
>> but worth the loss it is stable fault tolerant perfect what I do. easy to
>> replace or add drives. I have not used encryption --- yet
>> todd
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 7:22 PM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone actually using zfs on linux out there? Ala something like this
>>> <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-0.8-RC1-Released>
>>> ideally?
>>>
>>> When last I installed arch, there was a limit in the kernel that
>>> couldn't boot zfs for some reason, but otherwise tried it and liked what I
>>> saw. I'm more interested in encryption+boot if possible, but don't know
>>> anyone using zfs for anything real yet.
>>>
>>> I'd like to replace my md+luks+lvm setup with something that can do all
>>> native for raid+encryption+dynamic volumes, just would love to see someone
>>> else doing so already.
>>>
>>> -mb
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