Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:01:59 -0500 (EST) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GBDE mounts on top of other mounts (sshfs ?) fail ... please help Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0603171200180.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <200603170905.06177.amistry@am-productions.biz>
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Thursday 16 March 2006 19:45, Ensel Sharon wrote: > > I have successfully configured and used a GBDE. I followed these > > instructions: > > > > http://0x06.sigabrt.de/howtos/freebsd_encrypted_image_howto.html > > > > Easy. No problem. > > > > However, when I place the backing-store-file on a mounted sshfs > > (fuse) volume, it no longer works. Specifically, when I issue > > command: > > > > gbde init /dev/md0 -i -L /etc/gbde/md0 > > > > and save the resulting file that opens in my editor (without making > > any changes, as usual), after typing in my passphrase twice, I get > > this error: > > > > Enter new passphrase: > > Reenter new passphrase: > > gbde: write: Input/output error > > # > > > > > > Is this expected ? Is this a specific problem with fuse-fs, or > > would this fail if I tried to put the backing store on any kind of > > other mounted abnormal filesystem ? (say an NFS mount, or another > > md-backed mount point) > > > > Any comments ? I would really like to get this to work and would > > be happy to run more tests if someone could suggest some. > I don't have an answer for you, but you may want to contact Csaba Henk > <csaba.henk@creo.hu> about the fuse stuff. I don't think this is a FUSE problem (someone correct me if I am wrong) ... I don't know a lot about unionfs, but does this involve unionfs since I am putting a mount point on top of a mount point ? (md mount on top of a sshfs mount) ? I was reading about how there are problems with unionfs on FreeBSD 6.0, and I wonder if these are those problems, or if I am experiencing something completely different ? thank uyou.
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