Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:35:28 +0100 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gbde and geli on 6.2 Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0709271135m6048aaa9ife7c5d17c59db666@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070927174449.GA59260@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <3aaaa3a0709261509g414e3163mff45f9da3bc4d7f3@mail.gmail.com> <20070927174449.GA59260@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On 27/09/2007, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:09:22PM +0100, Chris wrote: > > Hi I am concerned about the availabilities of these encryptions in > > freebsd releases that are marked stable. > > > > It seems gbde has a problem when the the data written goes over the > > lba boundary around lba48. > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2007-August/002524.html > > > > I suffered this problem error example below. Usage at the time was > > approx 150gig when I first noticed it. > > > > g_vfs_done():ad6s1c.bde[WRITE(offset=493964558336, length=131072)]error = 1 > > > > After reading about this problem on a few diff hits (all with no > > response on fixes) I tried geli. > > > > However I seen this in geli within an hour of using it. > > > > GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=1). > > ad6s1c.eli[WRITE(offset=0, length=131072)] > > I've been running a GELI encrypted /home partition on 6.2-STABLE amd64 > for months without problems. I've had trouble with GELI on usb > harddisks, but that seems to be related to the USB/ATAPI controller. > > The message seems to come from /usr/src/sys/geom/eli/g_eli_integrity.c, > in the function g_eli_auth_write_done. But for a more detailed analysys, > you'd have to set kern.geom.eli.debug to 3, and see what else pops > up. The headers indicate that the error number is used according to > errno.h, which lists 1 as being "Operation not permitted". > > Both GELI and GBDE fail with the same length of request. So the error > might depend on the underlaying code in the kernel (bio* functions). > > Are you sure that the disk and controller are working properly? > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) > > As I said no dma errors or any hd related errors of any sort with encyrption turned off. How big are your drives? Chris
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