Encrypting raid5 volume with geli

oxy oxy at field.hu
Sun Dec 14 05:42:16 PST 2008


I am using 7.0-RELEASE
can you guys give me a link where can I download the patch?
thank you

Rick C. Petty írta:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:22:27PM +0100, oxy at field.hu wrote:
>   
>> as i read it seems that it's useless for sync the raid after initing, i
>>     
>
> Not sure what you mean here.  RAID5 sync after creation is pretty typical.
> I think it many cases it's unnecessary, but the current gvinum code does
> perform a sync-after-create for raid5.
>
>   
>> have no chance to encrypt it with geli, am i right?
>>     
>
> With the patch lulf@ just committed, you should be able to geli a raid5
> volume under gvinum.  You may have to wait for it to be MFC'd if you're not
> using HEAD (FreeBSD-CURRENT).  You could also apply his patch to your
> source code and rebuild from /usr/src/sbin/gvinum/ and it should work for
> you.
>
> -- Rick C. Petty
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