Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:07:17 +0200 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0 Message-ID: <20120410210717.3e65b9a9@dijkstra.cruwe.de> In-Reply-To: <4F835F10.4000207@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <20120409180730.08dfe9bb@dijkstra.cruwe.de> <4F835F10.4000207@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:13:36 +1000 Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and > > ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. > > > > Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the > > provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus > > > > $> zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli > > > > failed with the message > > > > Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation. > > > > I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli > > part, so I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted > > partition instead to have a working machine for the week. I would, > > however, like to have my data on an encrypted partition though. Has > > anyone witnessed and resolved this issue or does anyone have other > > ideas? > > Someone using ZFS will be able to verify this, but from my > understanding ZFS runs on the hardware and you can *possibly* put > geli on top of ZFS. > > You can put geom on ZFS but not the other way around. > > HTH > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I had a zpool on a geli on FreeBSD-8.0 to 8.2 and 8-stable. I opted for a complete reinstall of 9.0 instead of upgrading due to issues with xmonad, which I did not understand then. I am "furious" at my decision now that I have seen that a update would possibly have been much easier than to reinstall, had I at that time understood what was causing problems with xmonad. Cheers, Christopher
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