Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:41:19 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to mirror a geli partition? Message-ID: <eo6lfo$418$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <eo5qpb$1uev$4@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <eo5qpb$1uev$4@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig78FEF9148CFAA187314D1EF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Christian Baer wrote: > This is actually the biggest problem I am facing. In what order do I do= > this? I was thinking along this way: > 1 - Create partions and try to get them the same size. :-) > 2 - Fill one (or both?) with random data. > 3 - Make a geli provider out of one of them, newfs it. > 4 - Do something like 'gmirror label -v -b load secret 1.eli' > and 'gmirror insert 2.eli' > I am not sure if I should reverse the order of 3 and 4. Or have I gotte= n > the whole idea wrong? >=20 > Can someone point me in the right direction? First mirror the partitions and then create geli drive on top of it. If you do it the other way (encrypt each of the partition separately), you will be asked for password twice and each drive will (AFAIK) get its own internal key even if you use the same password (I'm not sure about that one, though). --------------enig78FEF9148CFAA187314D1EF0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFptk1ldnAQVacBcgRAnlsAKDYcIq04n1VEnaL+MGBqxBFYVKHJQCgnIaW rvune1F5JgNnCqCDu7/vJ60= =/b3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig78FEF9148CFAA187314D1EF0--
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