From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 29 16:31:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF12216A67F for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 16:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianchov@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E9243D46 for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 16:31:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ianchov@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so151726uge for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 09:31:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=UevWVBCycRzxfoDTmPlCG4ci7kgbLF/4oYtFok4pebatTYnwvgag+fZJPiP/2Wjqe+3tzRivTSb5zgdMBsIltzI0ab09LzU5ZEeoxBo5Gk6BzGDIhg7foAuuVYgD9SYQnXue5pztAuUG1RGyUW07g5BgGLEprNIXqcZD0x/nwYk= Received: by 10.78.32.16 with SMTP id f16mr427274huf; Mon, 29 May 2006 09:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.39.6 with HTTP; Mon, 29 May 2006 09:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <18e02bd30605290931i6fb55892h634b55201b50d60f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:31:38 +0000 From: "Iantcho Vassilev" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <20060529231524.0f76b3ba@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <18e02bd30605290443p36f3859bt1359ca75d1c896ce@mail.gmail.com> <20060529231524.0f76b3ba@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: geli resilience to power outages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:31:43 -0000 On 5/29/06, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:43:46 +0300 > "Iantcho Vassilev" 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 Thanks for the input,Beto.. As i didn`t read the GELI "workbook" can you tell be can i convert existing partition in GELI or i should repartition?