Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:13:36 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0 Message-ID: <4F835F10.4000207@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20120409180730.08dfe9bb@dijkstra.cruwe.de> References: <20120409180730.08dfe9bb@dijkstra.cruwe.de>
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On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and > ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. > > Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the > provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus > > $> zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli > > failed with the message > > Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation. > > I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli part, so > I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted partition instead to > have a working machine for the week. I would, however, like to have my > data on an encrypted partition though. Has anyone witnessed and resolved > this issue or does anyone have other ideas? Someone using ZFS will be able to verify this, but from my understanding ZFS runs on the hardware and you can *possibly* put geli on top of ZFS. You can put geom on ZFS but not the other way around. HTH
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