From: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:12:14 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Duplicate the encryption copies=3 limitation
X-Git-Tag: zfs-0.8.0-rc5~36
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e81f9b21b1ba5649691d07143849665dd6108ad;p=zfs

Duplicate the encryption copies=3 limitation

This adds the encryption copies=3 limitation language into the copies
property section.

Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Closes #8651
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diff --git a/man/man8/zfs.8 b/man/man8/zfs.8
index 69036d04c..a8e859bdc 100644
--- a/man/man8/zfs.8
+++ b/man/man8/zfs.8
@@ -1342,6 +1342,11 @@ create, for example a two-disk striped pool and set
 on some datasets thinking you have setup redundancy for them. When a disk
 fails you will not be able to import the pool and will have lost all of your
 data.
+.Pp
+Encrypted datasets may not have
+.Sy copies Ns = Ns Em 3
+since the implementation stores some encryption metadata where the third copy
+would normally be.
 .It Sy devices Ns = Ns Sy on Ns | Ns Sy off
 Controls whether device nodes can be opened on this file system.
 The default value is