Encrypting raid5 volume with geli

[Ulf Lilleengen]

On tor, des 11, 2008 at 10:01:37pm -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote:
*snip*
> There are a set of patches that lulf@ has which I believe put the volume in
> "up" state initially instead of "down", but maybe it only works for
> mirrors.  The code in current and RELENG_7 does initially put the volume in
> "down" state.
> 
Yes, it only works for mirrors, since I thought it doesn't really matter if a
mirror is properly initialized, since the user need to put data into the
mirror for it to be useful anyway. The same goes for RAID-5 I guess, but I
was not sure if it might trigger some weird behaviour since parity would not
match if reading the volume. I will test out a small modification I made,
which removes the need to run 'gvinum start' on the raid5 plexes.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen