Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:05:51 -0500 From: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geli init for first time Message-ID: <CA%2BQLa9DRZTbQb3HZ%2B2uObZgz622zLRPvnj_v_tHNemkHwPFErQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120302131429.183b491d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9BTSWAQZEVsB4-DUXkE0T=8RZcycMX35ycUy6CD2Vfewg@mail.gmail.com> <20120302131429.183b491d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:14 AM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:00:17 -0500 > Robert Simmons wrote: > >> After you perform "geli init" and "geli attach" you must use dd to >> initialize the new provider before you run newfs. =A0If you had enabled >> authentication of some kind during the init step, when you attach the >> provider you get a series of errors such as these: >> GEOM_ELI: ada0p4.eli: 4096 bytes corrupted at offset 0. >> GEOM_ELI: ada0p4.eli: 4096 bytes corrupted at offset 4096. >> >> ... >> I propose that a switch be added to "geli attach" that signifies that >> it is the first time that a provider is being attached and these >> errors are to be suppressed. > > > If you know to use the switch then you'd know that the warnings are > harmless. Perhaps it would be better to make the warning more accurate: > > GEOM_ELI: ada0p4.eli: 4096 bytes not authenticated at offset 4096. > > >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0... add something= to the end of the DATA >> AUTHENTICATION section of the geli(8) man page that mentions why these >> errors occur and that they can be safely ignored. > > Good idea I have created a patch that incorporates the change in error messages that you suggested to make them more accurate as well as add a bit of information about these error messages to the geli(8) man page. I submitted this patch in the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D165695
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