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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:26:02 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [GJournal+Geli] Quick question before installation
Message-ID:  <hm8p6a$l65$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <f0268c221002260540k148e4085xf59041cb2d832e1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f0268c221002260540k148e4085xf59041cb2d832e1@mail.gmail.com>

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On 02/26/10 14:40, Malibu Carl wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I am new to all these features and I am about to install FreeBSD8.0 from a
> USB Drive.
>
> Before I take any further steps, I would like to ask whether is possible to
> perform an installation having an encrypted journaled UFS2 filesystem.
>
> As far as I know, I would say it is possible since gjournal and UFS2 operate
> on top of geli.
>
> Is this correct?

Yes, you would have this graph of GEOM classes:
DISK - [possibly some partitions or slices] - GELI - GJOURNAL - UFS

GJOURNAL and UFS need to be together, other classes are not position 
sensitive (within reason).




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