From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 19:07:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D4910656B3 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:07:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cjr@cruwe.de) Received: from cruwe.de (cruwe.de [188.40.164.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37B58FC1C for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cruwe.de (unknown [127.0.0.4]) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CED148ED for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by cruwe.de (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 90353148EC; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:07:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.cruwe.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from dijkstra.cruwe.de (p5B37B423.dip.t-dialin.net [91.55.180.35]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC1C7148EA for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:07:17 +0200 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120410210717.3e65b9a9@dijkstra.cruwe.de> In-Reply-To: <4F835F10.4000207@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <20120409180730.08dfe9bb@dijkstra.cruwe.de> <4F835F10.4000207@herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV on mail.cruwe.de using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0 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: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:07:29 -0000 On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:13:36 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I had a zpool on a geli on FreeBSD-8.0 to 8.2 and 8-stable. I opted for a complete reinstall of 9.0 instead of upgrading due to issues with xmonad, which I did not understand then. I am "furious" at my decision now that I have seen that a update would possibly have been much easier than to reinstall, had I at that time understood what was causing problems with xmonad. Cheers, Christopher