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

[Dan Ritter]

House non-media server:

  pool: home
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:24:11 with 0 errors on Thu Jul
21 02:24:12 2022
config:

        NAME                                             STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
        home                                             ONLINE 0     0     0
          mirror-0                                       ONLINE 0     0     0
            ata-CT1000MX500SSD1_2209E6143D74             ONLINE 0     0     0
            ata-Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_1TB_S3Z8NB0K721801P  ONLINE 0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

  pool: pool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 07:15:45 with 0 errors on Tue Jul
26 09:15:46 2022
config:

        NAME                                        STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
        pool                                        ONLINE 0     0     0
          mirror-0                                  ONLINE 0     0     0
            wwn-0x600304801b925b0022b2b03fa611222e  ONLINE 0     0     0
            sda                                     ONLINE 0     0     0
          mirror-1                                  ONLINE 0     0     0
            sdb                                     ONLINE 0     0     0
            wwn-0x600304801b925b0022b1b96f36362aad  ONLINE 0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

home is a pair of 1TB SSDs; pool is four 4TB spinners. Root is a
250GB SSD with ext4fs because I still don't trust my ability to
recover a root-on-ZFS Debian box easily. It gets backed up to
pool nightly.

-dsr-