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Yeah, I'm sure there are ways to cobble together such a solution on Linux, but ZFS (optionally with GELI) makes it so brain-dead simple. No need to learn dm-integrity commands to control the integrity bits, luks (or any of a dozen other encrypted-device iterations) for encryption bits, pv* commands to control the physical volumes, vg* commands to control the volume-groups, lv* commands to manage the logical volumes, then manage file-systems atop that, and then try to tune the right blocksizes for optimal reads/writes. Just zpool(8) and zfs(8) for the whole thing.
I played that Linux game once and that was more than enough 😆
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@gumnos @mirabilos @rl_dane FreeBSD's GELI is sooooooooo good. I hate working with storage on Linux, they made so many terrible design decisions. They should throw it all in the trash and just copy FreeBSD's GEOM (go ahead and take it, it's BSD licensed anyway)