Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:23:45 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is geli detectable? Message-ID: <20080619162345.7aaa94a3@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080619142723.GA97597@voi.aagh.net> References: <20080618225407.1337ad03@gumby.homeunix.com.> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0806182101330.16812@nc8000.tharned.org> <20080619142723.GA97597@voi.aagh.net>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:27:23 +0100 Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> wrote: > * Greg Rivers (gcr@tharned.org) wrote: > > You can prove this by running `geli dump > > <provider>` when the provider is not attached (decrypted), or by > > otherwise inspecting the last sector. > > Yup, this is how the .eli devices magic into existance on boot/attach. > ... > Similarly I expect you could encrypt the metadata block itself, again > forgoing auto-detection in favour of manually mounting; geli devices are found at boot by looking for devices that end in .eli in fstab.
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