Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 23:15:24 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: geli resilience to power outages Message-ID: <20060529231524.0f76b3ba@localhost> In-Reply-To: <18e02bd30605290443p36f3859bt1359ca75d1c896ce@mail.gmail.com> References: <18e02bd30605290443p36f3859bt1359ca75d1c896ce@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:43:46 +0300 "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> wrote: > DO someone know if and how GELI is resilience to power outages? > > Does the box is still encrypted? After reboot what would happen to fcsk? Hi Iantcho , I dont know for a fact the effect with a power outage, but I use it quite a lot on laptops (which a) freeze sometimes out of nowhere , and b) sometimes dont resume properly,). In both situations, I've usually had geli mounted disks (1 x 6 GB, 1 x 500 MB) running when the events happened. ( as well as a 4 GB swap which is also GELI backed) They (touch wood) haven't suffered data loss. /usr and /var seem be more affected by this ungraceful shutdowns than the .eli devices. I suppose it's all cool thanks to soft-updates, and the fact that GELI encrypts on a per block basis (yeah, no more pgp-busted disks like in Windows :) ). good luck, Beto
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