conf/128299: [patch] /etc/rc.d/geli does not mount partitions using both journal and eli

[Yoshihiro Ota]

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From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: mb at tns.cz
Subject: Re: conf/128299: [patch] /etc/rc.d/geli does not mount partitions
 using both journal and eli
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:31:03 -0500

 I see it now.
 
 I forgot how I tested it but it seems I only tested "geli_expand_entry"
 function.  I remember that it extracted multiple occurrences of .eli's in
 a single path.
 
 I think I only tested .eli.journal really would get mounted as I didn't
 have any devices to test with.
 
 
 By the way, I don't think DEVICE.journal.eli will be helpful.  Journaing
 needs to be fs-aware.  It logs the records of file system updates.
 However, if you put GEOM eli on top of it, DEVICE.journal only sees
 encripted block and as a result, gournaling is effectively disabled.
 In another word, it needs to be the last GEOM layer.
 
 Is that right?
 
 Regards,
 Hiro