Re: Root On ZFS with Encryption

To: Xianwen Chen (�贤�) <xchen%live.no@localhost>
Subject: Re: Root On ZFS with Encryption
From: nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 11:21:57 +0000

On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 08:52:18PM +0000, Xianwen Chen (????) wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Happy new year!
> 
> I wonder if the workaround described in [0] could be further extended to the
> root ZFS fully encrypted? Has someone tried to do it?
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> Xianwen
> 
> [0] https://wiki.netbsd.org/wiki/RootOnZFS/

Hi, yeah, we did this recently. It required creating a custom
ramdisk and was super fiddly in general. I'd strongly recommend
booting to root FFS and only storing your most important data in
zfs on gpt on cgd instead.

References:
- Root On ZFS with Encryption
  - From: Xianwen Chen (陈贤文)

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