Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:57:05 -0800 From: Matthew Bostrom <mb@mbostrom.us> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Geom/GBDE documentation comments. Message-ID: <20050227205705.GA19401@localhost.localdomain>
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Hi doc@freebsd.org, I just installed FreeBSD 5.3 and played with GBDE on it. I followed these instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html I noticed the following two discrepancies: ---- Discrepancy 1 ---- 16.15.1 - This section implies that you need to recompile your kernel to get GBDE functionality. On 5.3 (and possibily on 5.2.1 and maybe even earlier versions), recompiling the kernel is not necessary. The standard kernel can do GBDE "out of the box". You can check and see: # ls -l /boot/kernel/geom_bde.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23345 Nov 4 20:19 /boot/kernel/geom_bde.ko This file is the gbde kernel module. If you have it, you do not need to recompile. ---- Discrepancy 2 ---- 16.15.2 says "For use with UFS1 or UFS2, set the sector_size to 2048:" However, when I set sector_size to 2048 I got the following message: "gbde: sector_size not a proper number" So I used a sector size of 512. I have no idea why 2048 did not work. I believe that 2048 did work with 5.2.1. ---- End Discrepancies ---- Thanks! -Matthew. ______________________________________________________________________ mb@mbostrom.ushelp
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