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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:58 +0100
From:      Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
To:        a.n.s.i@gmx.net, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geom_eli, N disks, zfs
Message-ID:  <E1Mq2jy-000Gq4-DV@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090921143821.27380@gmx.net>

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> Is there any better way to configure a system to encrypt N-disk with passphrase for using under zfs as write in loader.conf following:

I use a very short separate partition as the keyfile, decrypt that
once and then use it to decrypt the others. My rc.conf looks like
this:

	geli_autodetach="NO"
	geli_devices="ad4s1e ad6 ad8"
	geli_ad6_flags="-p -k /dev/ad4s1e.eli"
	geli_ad8_flags="-p -k /dev/ad4s1e.eli"

which is a bit shorter than yours :-) ad4s1 is 5 sectors (i.e. 2560
bytes) hence ad4s1.eli is 2048 bytes. I initialised it with random
data before encrypting the other discs and I keep a backup of
the 4 sectors elsewhere just in case...

-pete.



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