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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:25:33 +0100
From:      mhca12 <mhca12@gmail.com>
To:        dweimer@dweimer.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geli overhead?
Message-ID:  <CAHUOmanYfr2B0sM%2B4mtzJnwyAWXf7uLTWF8mKWSMpiqJcg6fgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <abe71e782475fd98aef8e77721e3be9b@dweimer.net>
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On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:19 PM, dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 2:56 pm, mhca12 wrote:
>>
>> Is there some overhead associated with the geli setup as
>> described earlier?
>>
>> $ df -h
>> Filesystem         Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>> /dev/ada0p3.eli    127G    6.9G    119G     5%    /
>> devfs              1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
>> /dev/gpt/boot      991M    339M    642M    35%    /bootdir
>> $ gpart show
>> =>       34  312581741  ada0  GPT  (149G)
>>          34        128     1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
>>         162    2097152     2  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
>>     2097314  310484461     3  freebsd-ufs  (148G)
>>
>> Where did 21G from the 148G go?
>>
>> As suggested in dan.me.uk geli install guide I used geli init -a
>> HMAC/SHA256
>> and also ran dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/gpt/enc.eli across the eli volume.
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>
> Did you use the -a option when doing the geli init?
>
>
>  -a aalgo        Enable data integrity verification (authenti-
>                                 cation) using the given algorithm.  This
> will
>                                 reduce size of available storage and also
>                                 reduce speed.  For example, when using 4096
>                                 bytes sector and HMAC/SHA256 algorithm, 89%
> of
>                                 the original provider storage will be avail-
>                                 able for use.  Currently supported
> algorithms
>                                 are: HMAC/MD5, HMAC/SHA1, HMAC/RIPEMD160,
>                                 HMAC/SHA256, HMAC/SHA384 and HMAC/SHA512.
> If
>                                 the option is not given, there will be no
>                                 authentication, only encryption.  The recom-
>                                 mended algorithm is HMAC/SHA256.

Yes I did (see above).

Do I have to init the volume again to skip authentication?

Does skipping authentication also remove the requirement of
zeroing the whole eli disk for the checksums?



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