geom_eli related panic on sparc64

Alex alexb at netservicesplc.com
Sat Apr 29 19:13:53 UTC 2006


> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:04:39PM +0100, Alex wrote:
> +> Hi,
> +>
> +> I've been playing around with geom_eli for disk encryption as it can
> use
> +> hardware acceleration cards such as the soekris 1401 to speed things
> up.
> +> However, whenever I run "geli attach" to attach a geli device, I get a
> +> kernel panic. The device in question is one slice of a geom_mirror RAID
> +> array -- I have not tested an individual device to determine whether
> this
> +> makes any difference.
>
> This was a bug in md5 implementation, its already fixed in RELENG_6 (the
> fix will be included in 6.1).
>
> --
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
> pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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>

Thanks for your quick reply, I'll move to 6-STABLE for testing :)

--alex


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