Hi all,
main focus of the pool : (12 vdev zraid3 backup/storage) essentially my thought was to create a dataset for each compute node to backup directly to. encryption of the backups is required.
IE:
zroot/backup/database1
zroot/backup/database2
zroot/backup/server42
etc..
So my first question is.. assuming I don't care about the whole password inconvenience ..
in terms of pool performance.. Is it better to use full disk encryption on the entire pool? or just encrypt each zroot/backup dataset .. or even even just encrypt the zpool/backup and leave the rest of the pool unencrypted?
As a secondary function the server may have to run the odd zpool/vm or jail.. I know zraid3 is not a great option for random io r/w.. but would the encryption schema make it any-worse or better?
thanks
as a forethought.. with the zfs2.0 announcement.. there is no need to use anything other than zfs on absolutely everything that is important.. so I'm just gearing up for the eventual widespread migration to zfs .. I know... I'm never going to look back.. zfs in a word is "magical"
on a side note.. it would be nice to see more best practice, deployment guides and design documentation on implementing zfs into environments. not sure where you go to sign up.. but Id help!
main focus of the pool : (12 vdev zraid3 backup/storage) essentially my thought was to create a dataset for each compute node to backup directly to. encryption of the backups is required.
IE:
zroot/backup/database1
zroot/backup/database2
zroot/backup/server42
etc..
So my first question is.. assuming I don't care about the whole password inconvenience ..
in terms of pool performance.. Is it better to use full disk encryption on the entire pool? or just encrypt each zroot/backup dataset .. or even even just encrypt the zpool/backup and leave the rest of the pool unencrypted?
As a secondary function the server may have to run the odd zpool/vm or jail.. I know zraid3 is not a great option for random io r/w.. but would the encryption schema make it any-worse or better?
thanks
as a forethought.. with the zfs2.0 announcement.. there is no need to use anything other than zfs on absolutely everything that is important.. so I'm just gearing up for the eventual widespread migration to zfs .. I know... I'm never going to look back.. zfs in a word is "magical"
on a side note.. it would be nice to see more best practice, deployment guides and design documentation on implementing zfs into environments. not sure where you go to sign up.. but Id help!