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Date:      Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:32:27 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geli on DVD-RAM
Message-ID:  <20070408173227.7798594e@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <evauoe$h1g$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
References:  <evauoe$h1g$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>

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On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:38:06 +0200 (CEST)
Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Hi again!
> 
> This isn't really an urgent matter, but will become interesting for me
> quite soon. Can I encrypt the contents of a DVD-RAM directly with
> geli, thus creating an encrypted filesystem on the disc directly?
> Basicly, can I create a /dev/acd0.eli?

It should be pretty straightforward given that, according to
section 17.7.9 of the handbook, it can be disklabeled and newfs'ed like
hard disk.Why not just try it?

You might also be interested in the thread above. about geli on a
DVD-/+R.



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