problems using geli on top of gmirror
Stefan Krüger
stadtkind2 at gmx.de
Tue Jun 2 11:27:53 UTC 2009
hello list,
I have some problems using geli and gmirror (gm0 consists of ad0 and
ad2) together, here's my test-setup:
$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE
$ ls -hl /dev/mirror/gm0s1*
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 76 Jun 2 12:17 /dev/mirror/gm0s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 77 Jun 2 12:17 /dev/mirror/gm0s1a
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 78 Jun 2 12:17 /dev/mirror/gm0s1b
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 91 Jun 2 12:17 /dev/mirror/gm0s1b.eli
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 79 Jun 2 12:17 /dev/mirror/gm0s1c
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 80 Jun 2 12:21 /dev/mirror/gm0s1d
# bsdlabel /dev/mirror/gm0s1
# /dev/mirror/gm0s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 8388608 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
b: 2097152 8388608 swap
c: 12583809 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
don't edit
d: 2098049 10485760 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
As you can see, encrypting the swap partition with
# geli onetime -s 4096 -d /dev/mirror/gm0s1b
already worked fine, but trying to do
# geli init -s 4096 -K /boot/keys/gm0s1d.key /dev/mirror/gm0s1d
returns
geli: Cannot store metadata on /dev/mirror/gm0s1d: No such file or directory
so my question is, is that even possible? and if yes, what wrong with my
setup?
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