help needed - GBDE mounts on top of FUSE sshfs (fails)
Ensel Sharon
user at dhp.com
Mon Mar 27 17:45:32 UTC 2006
Hi,
I have posted this before on -questions and -hackers, and gotten no
response.
Basically, I have remote storage that I can access over ssh (from
rsync.net, who I _love_) and I use sshfs in FreeBSD 6.0 ports tree to
mount my filesystem locally. I followed this FreeBSD sshfs tutorial:
http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/freebsd_sshfs.html
The good news is, it works great. The bad news is, I cannot create a GBDE
in the mounted sshfs. Here are the details:
When I place the backing-store-file (for my GBDE) on a mounted sshfs
(fuse) volume, it no longer works. Specifically, when I issue command:
gbde init /dev/md0 -i -L /etc/gbde/md0
and save the resulting file that opens in my editor (without making any
changes, as usual), after typing in my passphrase twice, I get this error:
Enter new passphrase:
Reenter new passphrase:
gbde: write: Input/output error
#
Is this expected ? Is this a specific problem with fuse-fs, or would this
fail if I tried to put the backing store on any kind of other mounted
abnormal filesystem ? (say an NFS mount, or another md-backed mount point)
Any comments ? I really want an offsite encrypted volume. I have the
offsite from rsync.net, and the transport is encrypted via sshfs, but I am
paranoid and do not want them (or anyone) to see the contants, so I want
to just upload a single 2gig file and make a GBDE on it.
thanks.
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