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Subject: Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations
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Scott Bennett wrote:

>      As noted above, that would not work because then the label would not
> be readable at boot time.

Yes it would. What you would have is a nested configuration, geli within 
a label.

The label would be read when the device is present, then you would be 
able to attach the geli device (probably as /dev/label/blah.geli, I 
didn't try it).