Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 16.04.2021 um 10:17 schrieb Ferdinand Goldmann : > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> >> >> It’s OK-ish most of the time here (CH). >> >> It does *NOT* work through a proxy, due to the use of pipelined >> http-requests. >> >> What’s your internet-connection? > > The 10

geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Pete French
So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli. But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and then partition the encrypted disc, or indded just put the zpo

Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Clayton Milos
I encrypt the whole disk and then add it to the pool. No need to partition it. If I remember correctly zfs prefers unpartitioned disks. \\Clay > On 17 Apr 2021, at 21:54, Pete French wrote: > > So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done is to > partition the disc

Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Alan Somers
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 1:53 PM Pete French wrote: > So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done > is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and > encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli. > > But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and the

Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/17/2021 15:52, Pete French wrote: So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli. But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and then partition the en

geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat., Apr. 17, 2021, 1:04 p.m. Clayton Milos, wrote: > I encrypt the whole disk and then add it to the pool. No need to partition > it. If I remember correctly zfs prefers unpartitioned disks > ZFS on Solaris used to require the use of entire, raw disks as the cache was disabled if the disk

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-17 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Ferdinand Goldmann wrote (2021/04/15): > Hello, > > I've noticed that ever since update3.freebsd.org is gone (which was in Czech > republic I think), FreeBSD updates are often quite slow for me (= > Austria/Europe) > Especially so for major release upgrades. In fact so slow that I have time > to

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-17 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2021-04-18 03:12:35 (+0800), Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 16.04.2021 um 10:17 schrieb Ferdinand Goldmann : On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Rainer Duffner wrote: It’s OK-ish most of the time here (CH). It does *NOT* work through a proxy, due to the use of pipelined http-requests. What’s your intern

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-17 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2021-04-18 08:51:05 (+0800), Philip Paeps wrote: On 2021-04-18 03:12:35 (+0800), Rainer Duffner wrote: I’m cc-ing clusteradm and dnsadmin, in hope that there’s somebody there who can either fix it or take update4 out of the srv record… I can take update4 out of the DNS if it's misbehaving c

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-17 Thread Jason Tubnor
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 10:51, Philip Paeps wrote: > > > It looks like there were at least experiments with pointing > freebsd-update at AWS, similar to how portsnap currently works. I will > check if these experiments went anywhere and possibly point > freebsd-update there instead. > The AWS fr

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-17 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2021-04-18 13:57:45 (+0800), Jason Tubnor wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 10:51, Philip Paeps wrote: It looks like there were at least experiments with pointing freebsd-update at AWS, similar to how portsnap currently works. I will check if these experiments went anywhere and possibly p