Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV to
> remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows what I
> want to happen with each "chunk" of it. A "chunk" (my term) in this
> context is a directory and everything below it.
> 
> ZFS doesn't have partitions and filesystems. It has volumes. A volume
> is sort of a cross between a filesystem (you mount it and can assign
> quotas to it) and a directory (you assign permissions and ownerships to
> it). You can overcommit storage space and quotas - you do not get "disk
> full" errors and three days of nightmares while you figure out how to
> deal with this. the FS just tells you it used more than the allocated
> space and keeps telling you till you get it under the limit.

I've been looking at zfsonlinux and it looks a lot simpler than the
layers of RAID and LVM, but what about encryption. Can I encrypt
directories within ZFS or do I have to use something like ecryptfs on top
of it?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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