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