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Main issue with encryption is occasional attempts by certain (specific) Linux kernel developer to lockout ZFS out of access to advanced instruction set extensio
by p_l 2y ago
Main issue with encryption is occasional attempts by certain (specific) Linux kernel developer to lockout ZFS out of access to advanced instruction set extensions (far from the only weird idea of that specific developer).
The way ZFS encryption is layered, the features should be pretty much orthogonal from each other, but I'll admit that there's a bit of lacking with ZFS native encryption (though mainly in upper layer tooling in my experience rather than actual on-disk encryption parts)
- snvzz 2y ago>occasional attempts by certain (specific) Linux kernel developer Can we please refer to them by the actual name?
- E39M5S62 2y agoGreg Kroah-Hartman.
- ryao 2y agoThese are actually wrappers around CPU instructions, so what ZFS does is implement its own equivalents. This does not affect encryption (beyond the inconvenience that we did not have SIMD acceleration for a while on certain architectures).