On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 09:41 -0700, Michael Johnson wrote:
> Nikola M wrote:
> >Freddie Cash wrote:
> >> You definitely want to do the ZFS bits from within FreeBSD.
> >Why not using ZFS in OpenSolaris? At least it has most stable/tested
> >implementation and also the newest one if needed?
>
>
> I'd love to use OpenSolaris for exactly those reasons, but I'm wary of using
> an
> operating system that may not continue to be updated/maintained. If
> OpenSolaris
> had continued to be regularly released after Oracle bought Sun I'd be
> choosing
> it. As it is, I don't want to be pessimistic, but the doubt about
> OpenSolaris's
> future is enough to make me choose FreeBSD instead. (I'm sure that such
> sentiments won't make me popular here, but so far Oracle has been
> frustratingly
> silent on their plans for OpenSolaris.) At the very least, if FreeBSD
> doesn't
> do what I want I can switch the system disk to OpenSolaris and keep using the
> same pool. (Right?)
>
> Going back to my original question: does anyone know of any problems that
> could
> be caused by using raidz on top of encrypted drives? If there were a
> physical
> read error, which would get amplified by the encryption layer (if I'm
> understanding full-disk encryption correctly, which I may not be), would ZFS
> still be able to recover?
>
I don't know about ramifications (though I suspect that a broadening
error scope would decrease ZFS' ability to isolate and work around
problematic regions on the media), but one thing I do know. If you use
FreeBSD disk encryption below ZFS, then you won't be able able to import
your pools to another implementation -- you will be stuck with FreeBSD.
Btw, if you want a commercially supported and maintained product, have
you looked at NexentaStor? Regardless of what happens with OpenSolaris,
we aren't going anywhere. (Full disclosure: I'm a Nexenta Systems
employee. :-)
-- Garrett
>
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