Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:45:30 -0500 (EST) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: help needed - GBDE mounts on top of FUSE sshfs (fails) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0603271238270.11218-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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Hi, I have posted this before on -questions and -hackers, and gotten no response. Basically, I have remote storage that I can access over ssh (from rsync.net, who I _love_) and I use sshfs in FreeBSD 6.0 ports tree to mount my filesystem locally. I followed this FreeBSD sshfs tutorial: http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/freebsd_sshfs.html The good news is, it works great. The bad news is, I cannot create a GBDE in the mounted sshfs. Here are the details: When I place the backing-store-file (for my GBDE) 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 really want an offsite encrypted volume. I have the offsite from rsync.net, and the transport is encrypted via sshfs, but I am paranoid and do not want them (or anyone) to see the contants, so I want to just upload a single 2gig file and make a GBDE on it. thanks.
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