geli device istgt

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Thu Nov 1 08:50:56 UTC 2012


On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:17:25 +0100, Johannes Mäulen <Maeulen at awp-shop.de>  
wrote:

> Hi there,
> I'm new here, "Hello" :). Hopefully it's the right mailing list...
> I've setup a Freebsd 9.0-RELEASE machine to handle my storage devices.
> I'd like to "share" encrypted partitions via iscsi. But, I'd like to  
> take the encryption take place on the iscsi-target(-machine). The  
> machine is equipped with a aes-ni capable cpu, which I'd like to use. I  
> set up a geli device, but whenever I try to use it as target I get  
> errors like:
>
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/istgt start
> Starting istgt.
> istgt version 0.5 (20121028)
> normal mode
> using kqueue
> using host atomic
> LU1 HDD UNIT
> LU1: LUN0 file=/dev/da0p1.eli, size=1499976953856
> LU1: LUN0 2929642488 blocks, 512 bytes/block
> istgt_lu_disk.c: 330:istgt_lu_disk_allocate_raw: ***ERROR***  
> lu_disk_read() failed
> istgt_lu_disk.c: 650:istgt_lu_disk_init: ***ERROR*** LU1: LUN0: allocate  
> error
> istgt_lu.c:2091:istgt_lu_init_unit: ***ERROR*** LU1: lu_disk_init()  
> failed
> istgt_lu.c:2166:istgt_lu_init: ***ERROR*** LU1: lu_init_unit() failed
> istgt.c:2799:main: ***ERROR*** istgt_lu_init() failed
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/istgt: WARNING: failed to start istgt
>
> Could somebody help me with that?
> If I try to start istgt with an unencrypted partition everything works  
> as expected.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johannes


Can you provide some information about how you setup geli and istg? And  
does the geli partition work locally without istgt?

Ronald.


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