gbde and geli on 6.2

[Chris]

On 27/09/2007, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:35:28PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> > > > However I seen this in geli within an hour of using it.
> > > >
> > > > GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=1).
> > > > ad6s1c.eli[WRITE(offset=0, length=131072)]
> > >
> > > I've been running a GELI encrypted /home partition on 6.2-STABLE amd64
> > > for months without problems. I've had trouble with GELI on usb
> > > harddisks, but that seems to be related to the USB/ATAPI controller.
>
> > As I said no dma errors or any hd related errors of any sort with
> > encyrption turned off.  How big are your drives?
>
> I have two 160GB SATA150 drives in a mirrored configuration (VIA Tech
> V-RAID RAID1). The encrypted partition is 120GB.
>
> Roland
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In that case the partition is too small if the problem is what we think it is.

Chris