[Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> On 7/26/22 19:43, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> Now, the exciting part!!! ZFS does a lot of awesome things.
>
> For years I was a big fan of Linux software raid 1 (could never afford
> fancier raid levels), until disks outgrew it: In my raid 1 setups one
> hiccough and one whole damn disk needs to be rewritten. As disks get
> bigger and bigger, that starts to be a real problem.
>
> I have not yet played with however ZFS does raid-like stuff, but I am
> assuming it is wiser...
>
> -kb
>
>
>
root at snoopy:/home/markw# zpool status
  pool: zpool001
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 0 days 04:29:41 with 0 errors on Tue Jul 26
18:22:58 2022
config:

	NAME                        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
	zpool001                    ONLINE       0     0     0
	  raidz1-0                  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    wwn-0x5000c500c6909083  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    sdk                     ONLINE       0     0     0
	    wwn-0x5000c500c690132c  ONLINE       0     0     0
	logs
	  wwn-0x5f8db4c32200942d    ONLINE       0     0     0
	cache
	  sdj                       ONLINE       0     0     0


I just replaced a bad drive with sdk. I've had this configuration since 2T
hard disks became afordable. It's not getting on in years, and I'm only
getting 4T, but it is redundant. The logs and cache drives are ssd.