Encryption didn't make it in? That's too bad!

lathiat · on July 27, 2017

Yeah I've been watching the pull request eagerly but not quite there :(

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769

Judging by the comments from today though it sounds like it will be merged very shortly after this release. So that's good news :D

I'm also wanting to look at this "OPAL" native drive encryption stuff, which requires among other things a UEFI plugin and some other bits. That would be a useful solution also though much more versatile here in ZFS for example doing per-user stuff, and also encrypted send without decrypting

Lots of good changes in 0.7 otherwise!

lmm · on July 27, 2017

Wait, has encryption hit open-source ZFS at all? Can I use it on FreeBSD?

wspeirs · on July 27, 2017

Don't know if you can use it on FreeBSD yet, but tcaputi added it to Linux here: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769 Matt Ahrens approved the changes, and hopefully it'll get rolled in ZoL soon.

Full disclosure, I work with Tom at Datto.

wspeirs · on July 27, 2017

Yes, Brian's plan was to fold encryption into ZFS after 0.7.0. It was simply too large of a change to do in one shot.