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A comment on FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive, GELI, and UFS (2015).

Re:FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive... by z0xcd on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:27PM (#11294355)
Question: when installing FreeBSD 11, I can automatically encrypt the disk in the install if I use ZFS, using UFS doesn't work, I would have to do that manually. Why didn't they implement this already?
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Re:FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive... by mioelnir on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:42PM (#11294413)
I think the encrypted ZFS installer bits were upstreamed by PCBSD which is ZFS-only; so it would make sense for them not to implement the UFS version.

Apart from that, probably nobody needed it bad enough to sit down and write it so far.

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