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As much as I lament the status of native encryption in OpenZFS, and think it would have been better to merge it with more testing, I think what I find to be rea
by rincebrain 3y ago
As much as I lament the status of native encryption in OpenZFS, and think it would have been better to merge it with more testing, I think what I find to be really more problematic is the lack of enough fixing afterward.
Software is buggy, and it's going to have bugs you don't find no matter how much you tested it. The problem was that (AFAIR) one developer at the company that developed this contributed fixes, and then he left, and then almost nobody did.
- nubinetwork 3y agoI think people were more interested in giving Oracle the finger than anything, considering missing feature parity and compatibility were constantly waved in our faces. (Not that ZOL encryption is compatible at all with Oracle's code) I often wonder if encryption would have been merged if Matt had usurped ZOL sooner.
- rincebrain 3y ago"usurp" is an interesting word for "decide ZoL was the project of record and replace the illumos reference platform with it", and since Matt was the one who said no because there's no mitigation other than not using it when I wanted to put a warning in the docs about it, I wouldn't anticipate him doing anything positive.
- nubinetwork 3y agoSorry, I might still be a bit salty about how that all went down years ago. Not to mention, some of my documentation changes got reverted in the process, as well as my name being stripped off other documentation entirely.
- rincebrain 3y agoI don't think my creation and abandonment of this spreadsheet suggests I'm not frustrated either. That's unfortunate, stripping anyone's name off anything is always unpleasant and shouldn't happen. I rather wish they hadn't just serialized a snapshot of the wiki out into GH pages and then said "just open PRs to edit this", but here we are, I guess.
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- transpute 3y agoWhat's the best way to catch up on those historical events? Web search yielded https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/BSDCan/jude-The_Future_of_OpenZFS_and_FreeBSD.files/jude-The_Future_of_OpenZFS_and_FreeBSD.pdf https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/BSDCan/jude-The_Future_of_Op...
- nubinetwork 3y agoI found this, although some of the other information might no longer exist due to the changes at the time. https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss/T13eedc32607dab41 https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss/T13eedc32...