On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:08:02PM -0500, c.hanover wrote: > In our particular case, there won't be snapshots of destroyed > filesystems (I create the snapshots, and destroy them with the > filesystem).
OK. > I'm not too sure on the particulars of NFS/ZFS, but would it be > possible to create a 1GB file without writing any data to it, and then > use a hex editor to access the data stored on those blocks previously? Absolutely not. That is, you can create a 1GB file without writing to it, but it will appear to contain all zeros. > Any chance someone could make any kind of sense of the contents > (allocated in the same order they were before, or what have you)? No. See above. > ZFS crypto will be nice when we get either NFSv4 or NFSv3 w/krb5 for > over the wire encryption. Until then, not much point. You can use NFS with krb5 over the wire encryption _now_. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
