Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:31:38 +0000 From: "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: geli resilience to power outages Message-ID: <18e02bd30605290931i6fb55892h634b55201b50d60f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060529231524.0f76b3ba@localhost> References: <18e02bd30605290443p36f3859bt1359ca75d1c896ce@mail.gmail.com> <20060529231524.0f76b3ba@localhost>
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On 5/29/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:43:46 +0300 > "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@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?
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