SUJ doesn't work with GELI?

Boris Kochergin spawk at acm.poly.edu
Thu Dec 30 02:54:31 UTC 2010


On 12/29/10 21:44, Lucius Windschuh wrote:
> 2010/12/29 Boris Kochergin<spawk at acm.poly.edu>:
>> Ahoy. I'm having trouble enabling SUJ on a UFS filesystem that lives on top
>> of a GELI device. The system is an i386 -CURRENT build from December 24th. I
>> first noticed the problem when it happened with an actual disk, but here is
>> an example with a memory disk for ease of reproduction:
> Hi Boris.
> The problem is, as you may have already noticed, the "non-standard"
> block size of 4k of the GELI device.
> If you specify the tradiditional block size of 512 bytes when
> initializing the GELI provider, it should work.
>
> I sent an email to Jeff, the answer on April 27 was:
>> Thanks for the repro.  This is an interesting case.  I'll have to slightly rewrite the directory handling code in tunefs but it should not take long.
> But I forgot to remind Jeff about this issue, as it seems. So I'll try
> again with this mail...
>
> Regards,
>
> Lucius

Aha. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the insight.

-Boris


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