geli resilience to power outages

[Iantcho Vassilev]

On 5/29/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:43:46 +0300
> "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > DO someone know if and how GELI is resilience to power outages?
> >
> > Does the box is still encrypted? After reboot what would happen to fcsk?
>
> Hi Iantcho ,
> I dont know for a fact the effect with a power outage, but I use it quite
> a lot
> on laptops (which a) freeze sometimes out of nowhere , and b) sometimes
> dont
> resume properly,).  In both situations,  I've usually had geli mounted
> disks (1
> x 6 GB, 1 x 500 MB) running when the events happened. ( as well as a 4 GB
> swap
> which is also GELI backed)
>
> They (touch wood) haven't suffered data loss. /usr and /var seem be more
> affected by this ungraceful shutdowns than the .eli devices.
>
> I suppose it's all cool thanks to soft-updates, and the fact that GELI
> encrypts
> on a per block basis (yeah, no more pgp-busted disks like in Windows :) ).
>
> good luck,
> Beto




Thanks for the input,Beto..

As i didn`t read the GELI "workbook" can you tell be can i convert existing
partition in GELI or i should repartition?