3. Interupts and Context Switches with ZFS with LUKS

   Why care?

   Interupts and Context switches represent overhead and ineffeciency (in general).

   The Setup

   The Same 15 4TB drives in a raidz3 with a hotspare (16 drives total).

   Testing was just a scrub (no fresh boot). Switched between CFQ and NOOP a couple of times.

   Results

   The picture generally speaks …

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4. ZFS performance on LUKS

   the setup

   The system being tested is a 15 drive raidz3 setup with 4TB drives running kernel 3.13.2 (non-hardened for testing).

   The encryption algorithm

   I was previously using cbc-essiv, this causes I found (via a simple scrub test) that it caused my performance to be about 10% lower …

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5. Of ZFS and SELinux

   This patchset has been incuded in zfsonlinux, the selinux policy is still needed

   This continues my work in adding zfs to the list of filesystems that SELinux supports

   Disclaimer

   1. These patches are against git master (because 0.6.3 should be out 'soon').
   2. IANAL
   3. If you patch the kernel to …

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6. Gentoo Hardened ZFS rootfs with dm-crypt/luks 0.6.2

   Disclaimer

   1. Keep in mind that ZFS on Linux is supported upstream, for differing values of support
   2. I do not care much for hibernate, normal suspending works.
   3. This is for a laptop/desktop, so I choose multilib.
   4. IANAL
   5. If you patch the kernel to add in ZFS support directly, you cannot …

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