On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV to > remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows what I > want to happen with each "chunk" of it. A "chunk" (my term) in this > context is a directory and everything below it. > > ZFS doesn't have partitions and filesystems. It has volumes. A volume > is sort of a cross between a filesystem (you mount it and can assign > quotas to it) and a directory (you assign permissions and ownerships to > it). You can overcommit storage space and quotas - you do not get "disk > full" errors and three days of nightmares while you figure out how to > deal with this. the FS just tells you it used more than the allocated > space and keeps telling you till you get it under the limit.
I've been looking at zfsonlinux and it looks a lot simpler than the layers of RAID and LVM, but what about encryption. Can I encrypt directories within ZFS or do I have to use something like ecryptfs on top of it? -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
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