zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0

[Da Rock]

On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
> I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and
> ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed.
>
> Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the
> provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus
>
> $>  zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli
>
> failed with the message
>
> Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation.
>
> I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli part, so
> I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted partition instead to
> have a working machine for the week. I would, however, like to have my
> data on an encrypted partition though. Has anyone witnessed and resolved
> this issue or does anyone have other ideas?

Someone using ZFS will be able to verify this, but from my understanding 
ZFS runs on the hardware and you can *possibly* put geli on top of ZFS.

You can put geom on ZFS but not the other way around.

HTH