geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

[Freddie Cash]

On Sat., Apr. 17, 2021, 1:04 p.m. Clayton Milos, <clay at milos.co.za> wrote:

> I encrypt the whole disk and then add it to the pool. No need to partition
> it. If I remember correctly zfs prefers unpartitioned disks


>
ZFS on Solaris used to require the use of entire, raw disks as the cache
was disabled if the disk was partitioned, tanking performance

ZFS on FreeBSD has never had this issue, and has fully supported the use of
partitioned disks from the very first import of ZFS into 7-Stable.

No other OS that supports ZFS has this issue; it's strictly a Solaris (and
derivatives) issue.

Cheers,
Freddie

Typos due to smartphone keyboard.


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