Geli Encrypted DVDs

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 8 00:32:59 UTC 2007


On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:59:42AM +0100, RW wrote:
> 
> In the questions list Roland Smith suggested that a geli encrypted dvd
> could be created by burning the backing file from an geli encrypted md
> device as a disk image. 
> 
> We were neither able to attach the DVD device though, see:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/145433.html
> 
> Does anyone know if this can be made to work?
> 
> FWIW I have no problem putting a UFS2 filesystem on a DVD-R without
> geli.

Could you give me the output of:

	# ls -l $HOME/backupDVD.img 
	# diskinfo -v /dev/acd0
	# geli dump /dev/acd0

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