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To: Tejas Kokje <kokje@ISI.EDU>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: gdbe based disk encryption
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At 02:51 PM 22/03/2005, Tejas Kokje wrote:
>Is there a way GEOM based disk encryption can be used with FreeBSD
>4.10 kernel ? According to handbook, gdbe only works for 5.3 release.

Hi,
         There was a thread about this recently on the freebsd-hackers 
mailing list, and basically the answer is no.  You will need to switch to 
the RELENG_5 series.

         ---Mike