I've been interested in writing a bit of a detailed encryption guide for some time. The idea is to walk folks through how they can play with and manipulate the keys in their system to understand how FreeNAS makes use of encryption so folks could better make an informed decision about whether to...

I don't even know where to begin with this FreeNAS issue that I'm having so I guess I'll start from the very beginning and hope the puzzle pieces fall into place. So a few days ago I got an alert that one of the volumes (named data2 unencrypted and no valuable data on) had a drive "disconnected"...

Hi, I installed a FreeNas 9.10 to a new disk and imported/uploaded the settings database from my previous FreeNas installation (which is still available on an USB-stick). Importing the settings worked fine. Now I'm trying to import my existing encrypted zfs pool consisting of 6 disks ada1 to...

Background Lately i had issues with one of my drives in my encrypted zpool. I was getting read and writeerrors and pool degradation. After doing some smarttests, short and long one, nothing seemed strange. I cleared the faults. But freeNAS kept complaining and degrading the pool and after a few...