On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:32:24PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > > > I am very keen to run OBSD on this, but if it's absolutely impractical to do > > so I'd also welcome suggestions of other ways to do this in FreeBSD. > > I don't know anything about FreeBSD's (lack of?) support for snapshots. > (Open)Solaris does have ZFS, which is supposed to be all kinds of > awesome. I know that people did try to get ZFS in FreeBSD, but I don't > know the current status of that effort.
At the risk of writing about the wrong OS on the wrong list, FreeBSD supports snapshots on UFS filesystems. You might find some debate as to how well they work, but I find them useful (it will depend what you want out of them; they can start to get slow with larger FS sizes). I guess there is a GEOM driver/class for encrypted filesystems, but I have no idea how that would interact with snapshots. Graham
