Category: ZFS

20min Handson ZFS

ZFS is often called the last word in file systems. It is a new approach to deal with large pools of disks originally invented by Sun. It was later then ported to FreeBSD, MacOS (only 10.5) and Linux. This text should show some of the basic feature of ZFS and demonstrate them handson by example.

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Creating encrypted Volumes on ZFS Pools

One of the most anticipated Features of ZFS is transparent Encryption. But since Oracle decided to do not make updates from Solaris 11 availible as Open Source, the Feature of on-Disk Encryption is not availible on Illumos (e.g. Open-Source) based Distributions. But there are some ways to create transparent encrypted ZPools with current avaiblibe ZFS