[3abiton]

> I very nearly permanently lost 8.5 TiB of data after performing what should've been a series of simple, routine ZFS operations but resulted in an undecryptable dataset. Time has healed the wound enough that I am no longer filled with anguish just thinking about it, so I will now share my experience in the hope that you may learn from my mistakes.

As a zfs user employing encryption, that read like a horror story. Great read, and thanks for the takeaway.

[mentalpagefault]

Thanks! If you'd like to read another encryption related horror story, this one served as a bit of stylistic inspiration: https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-s...

[nextaccountic]

why would anyone use zfs encryption rather than luks?

[3abiton]

Luks add overheads. Itcs more flexible, but zfs native envryption should be faster.