Maximum secure filesystem-size with geli

Christian Baer christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de
Sun Apr 17 17:41:19 UTC 2011


Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Recent GELI uses one key for every 2^20 sectors, so no more than
> (2^20)*sectorsize bytes is encrypted using one key, so file system size
> should not be an issue.

What does "recent" mean in this context? As of what version of FreeBSD is this the case?

Kind regards.
Chris

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