Maximum secure filesystem-size with geli

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 17 17:46:47 UTC 2011


On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 07:40:35PM +0200, Christian Baer wrote:
> 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?

FreeBSD 8.2.

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