Encrypting raid5 volume with geli

Rick C. Petty rick-freebsd2008 at kiwi-computer.com
Thu Dec 11 12:57:01 PST 2008


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:52:47PM +0100, oxy wrote:
> Is there any method to use encrypted raid5 volumes?
> i created the raid5 volume with gvinum, works fine, but when i try to
> encrypt it:
> geli init -P -K /root/enc.key /dev/gvinum/raid5
> it says:
> Cannot store Metadata....Operation not permitted
> any ideas?
> thank you!

What's the output of "gvinum l"?

-- Rick C. Petty


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