dumping large partition to USB drive fails

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Mon Jun 25 17:40:48 UTC 2007


Some background;

I'm using a 160GB USB harddisk to write dumps to. This disk is encrypted
with GEOM_ELI;

umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <WDC WD25 00JB-00REA0 20.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 238475MB (488397168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30401C)
GEOM_ELI: Device da0.eli created.
GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-CBC 256
GEOM_ELI:     Crypto: software


Since I've converted my largest partition (/home) to GEOM_ELI as well,
I'm having trouble making backups.

slackbox:~$ df -h
Filesystem         Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ar0s1a        496M     88M    368M    19%    /
devfs              1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ar0s1g.eli    120G     65G     46G    59%    /home
/dev/ar0s1e        496M     24K    456M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ar0s1f         19G    4.5G     13G    25%    /usr
/dev/ar0s1d        1.9G    147M    1.6G     8%    /var
/dev/da0.eli       226G    100G    107G    48%    /mnt/root


Backing up non-encrypted partitions like /, /usr and /var works
fine. But when I get to /home, the following happens;

(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): AutoSense Failed
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165967687
68, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165968998
40, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165970309
12, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165971619
84, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165972930
56, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165974241
28, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165975552
00, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165976862
72, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165966376
96, length=131072)]
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116596768768, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116596899840, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597030912, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597161984, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597293056, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597424128, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597555200, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597686272, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116596637696, length=131072)]error = 5
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=65536, len
gth=2048)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=6144000, l
ength=16384)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=6160384, l
ength=6144)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1161638707
20, length=16384)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1163565137
92, length=16384)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165491568
64, length=16384)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165979484
16, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165980794
88, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165982105
60, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165983416
32, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165984727
04, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165984727
04, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165986037
76, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165987348
48, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165988659
20, length=131072)]
GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=5). da0.eli[WRITE(offset=1165978173
44, length=131072)]
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=65536, length=2048)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=6144000, length=16384)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=6160384, length=6144)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116163870720, length=16384)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116356513792, length=16384)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116549156864, length=16384)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597948416, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116598079488, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116598210560, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116598341632, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116598472704, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116598603776, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116598734848, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116598865920, length=131072)]error = 5
g_vfs_done():da0.eli[WRITE(offset=116597817344, length=131072)]error = 5


I'm running:
FreeBSD slackbox.xs4all.nl 6.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sun Jun 24 18:44:45 CEST 2007     rsmith at slackbox.xs4all.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RFS  amd64

Any pointers?

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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