Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:50:24 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is geli detectable? Message-ID: <20080620025024.GA98916@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <20080619162345.7aaa94a3@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20080618225407.1337ad03@gumby.homeunix.com.> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0806182101330.16812@nc8000.tharned.org> <20080619142723.GA97597@voi.aagh.net> <20080619162345.7aaa94a3@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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* RW (fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) wrote:
> geli devices are found at boot by looking for devices that end in .eli
> in fstab.
Not at boot they're not, since fstab may well be encrypted and need to
be attached by geli before it can be mounted and read. It's tasted like
other GEOM providers, looking for metadata tagged with GEOM::ELI.
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
http://hur.st/
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