[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Kai Windle
Hi all, I'm just making a quick inquiry as to whether ZFS has encryption built into OI? I've tried googling around but nothing appears to be giving me a definitive yes or no answer. If encryption is not supported via ZFS how would I go about encrypting my entire hard drive? Sorry I'm still new t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel
For OpenZFS, there's a pull request open to add ZFS encryption. https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/124 It's had an enormous amount of review over the last year, including expert security review. Still going through testing. So hopefully, not far off. On 24/07/2017 18:48, Kai Windle wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hallo Kai, all Illumos based distributions have no ZFS encryption at the moment. On Juli, 24 2017, 19:48 wrote in [1]: > Hi all, > I'm just making a quick inquiry as to whether ZFS has encryption built into > OI? > I've tried googling around but nothing appears to be giving me a definitive > y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Kai Windle
Hello, Thank you for the fast replies. Other than the link that Andrew provided how do people using Illumos based distributions go about using encryption for their hard drives? Thanks Kai. On 24 July 2017 at 19:22, Alexander Lesle wrote: > Hallo Kai, > > all Illumos based distributions have n

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Kai, sorry I don't know. If you use napp-it from @gea you can fiddle with snapraid but I had never done it. On Juli, 24 2017, 20:44 wrote in [1]: > Hello, > Thank you for the fast replies. > Other than the link that Andrew provided how do people using Illumos based > distributions go abou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Kai Windle
Thanks, I'll install to a vm and see what I can come up with. Many thanks. Kai. On 24/07/2017 19:55, Alexander Lesle wrote: > Hello Kai, > > sorry I don't know. > If you use napp-it from @gea you can fiddle with snapraid but > I had never done it. > > On Juli, 24 2017, 20:44 wrote in [1]: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Günther Alka
There is currently no ZFS encryption outside Oracle Solaris, only encryprtion on underlying disks and devices but the mechanism are incompatible between BSD, Illumos or ZoL. Datto is working on it for ZoL based on the last free bits from Solaris. It's not ready but you can expect it on any Op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Al Slater
Hi Kai, On 24/07/17 19:44, Kai Windle wrote: > Hello, Thank you for the fast replies. Other than the link that > Andrew provided how do people using Illumos based distributions go > about using encryption for their hard drives? I don't need full disk encryption, but I use lofi to encrypt zfs volu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Kai Windle
Hi, Thank you all for the information I'll take a look. Kai. On 24/07/2017 21:16, Al Slater wrote: > Hi Kai, > > On 24/07/17 19:44, Kai Windle wrote: >> Hello, Thank you for the fast replies. Other than the link that >> Andrew provided how do people using Illumos based distributions go >> abo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] roughly normal rsyncing data point to point on localhost

2017-07-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmüller writes: > Hi Harry > > Could it be that you are copying many small files from a single > harddrive to another folder inside that drive? No smaller than one might incur in an operating OS. For example; not hundreds of thousands of emails or news posts. > If so it could be that yo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

2017-07-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmüller writes: > Hi Harry > > There is a wiki entry to install recent virtualbox. > https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox > > You may need the vboxconfig.sh patch. Yes, I used Jim K's documentation (before it was on the wiki) to install the vbox I am currently running 5.0.40. B

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

2017-07-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Tribble writes: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I posted this query July 9th but got no takers far as a response. >> Is this question in appropriate here? Is it a foolish question? >> >> If both answers are no, I'd really like to hear from someone who >> either