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Why would one choose it over dm-crypt? What are the advantages?

• veeti 9y ago
  Authenticated encryption, for one.
• e12e 9y ago
  Personally, I think the best thing is having (finally!) serious cross-platform encrypted drive support in software. (Yes hw encryption has its benefits, but like with software raid - the flexibility of software is great). Potentially this could also be easier to use for external disks than unlock, detect volumes, mount (or unlock zfs mount...). In theory, having compression and encryption handled by one codebase might open the door to a safe/clearly delineated tradeoffs of enabling both.
  • X86BSD 9y ago
    This to me, is one of the GREATEST advances since Unix was created. Seriously, how !@#!@# amazing is it to be able to yank a pool from illumos, Linux, FreeBSD etc and swap it into a box of another OS supporting ZFS and simply import it wether its encrypted or not but especially encrypted! I don't know if most of you are old enough to remember the absolute HELL of dealing with tape drives, and UFS to trying to get data recovered or migrated before ZFS. It usually resulted in tears.
    • grahamjperrin 9y ago
      ZFS - native encryption, resizing, bleaching | The FreeBSD Forums <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/56869/> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/56869/> > I hope that FreeBSD will be not too far behind. …