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

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

Gotta ask again. Why mirror and not "RAID?"

> 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-
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