From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 25 20:51:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7C916A401 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9814D13C45A for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033A051942 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:51:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:51:07 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070325215107.516b32c6@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20070324200844.F6725@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20070320190305.O29971@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20070320223619.6c18cd08@gumby.homeunix.com> <20070324200844.F6725@chylonia.3miasto.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: gbde and geli - differences X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:51:11 -0000 On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:10:11 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> why there are both? what should i use to have better chance i will > >> be able to recover data after say 10 years knowing password? > > > > I presume it's to do with geli using OpenSSL libraries and so > > picking-up hardware acceleration where available. I think gdbe is > > being sidelined. > > i switched to geli, making all my encrypted partition DVD sized, so i > can back it up encrypted by writing whole device to DVD. > How do you actually write the partition to the DVD? And can the DVD be mounted, or is it just a backup? If you do mount them, I'm wondering why you don't get the problem I had with the md filesystem.