Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 11:25:18 +0000 From: Taceant Omnes <taceant@gmail.com> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: entering geli passphrase only once at FreeBSD boot Message-ID: <CAKkGsYL8McB3CncDMiT=U7xjf%2BteNVs3rswzN-gfmrs-zvqRwQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20220109102339.45932ef6cf6f42daa3a1871d@sohara.org> References: <CAKkGsYKyPt5OfYVH5L=83yqzeHvkyMaU6oZH_0WzRFrWRKsXSw@mail.gmail.com> <20220109102339.45932ef6cf6f42daa3a1871d@sohara.org>
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 10:23, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > My solution was to log in after boot and run a script - less than > elegant but possible to do remotely if I was away during a power outage > (happened once). I've since given up on using encrypted drives, after a > scare when one drive became inaccessible after an outage due to geli errors. Steve, thanks for the ideas. Diverging a bit from the original topic, I don't have UPS and of course I am not keen on not loosing data. Although power outages are rare where I live, over the years I have had to reset or power cycle my Linux machine lots of times due to issues in the kernel, X, graphics driver or whatever. Luckily I never lost data. I was planning to use geli instead of ZFS native encryption because the former encrypts everything whereas the latter does not encrypt some meta data. But maybe it is better to use the latter to avoid losing data? What do you think?
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