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Installing Ubuntu on native ZFS root with encryption

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http://askubuntu.com – I'm trying to install Ubuntu with a native ZFS root filesystem on top of an encrypted partition. The device setup is as follows. physical disk partitioned into small boot partition and the rest the rest encrypted entirely and carved up into swap and a root partition for the actual system ZFS pool created on that root partition with a couple of ZFS filesystems for things like /home These are the two principal guides I've been following -- https://github.com/dajhorn/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Ubuntu-to-a-Native... and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemLVMH (HowTos)

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