From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sun Oct 18 10:36:22 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8C9A18028 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:36:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yonas@fizk.net) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D6BBAEF for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:36:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yonas@fizk.net) Received: by igbdj2 with SMTP id dj2so40005776igb.1 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:36:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fizk.net; s=google; h=to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=jb2ahukqQzRy+X0yllT6IVJtnHno8FFdLZP8gRV0SKg=; b=FgNtkCTUQ32ElX/DBEST3D41oWThF9DA5nOTGkjtimaEROWj8Kj5DfzQ6WEkK1Kky9 tBw4jzIqUzNGNmBEUYXNFdMnX68BKBzfQ84+tY/+Pk8eaYfD6lT32ukD/jSXzYadre99 4qAgemrZxeW4u7ea1AyKoPIyY4VDPprSN6vPs= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=jb2ahukqQzRy+X0yllT6IVJtnHno8FFdLZP8gRV0SKg=; b=cgj60Ze4dC5yWYxUNpM5ygVWf9UVUkVk5Suy8FlMv75x53jk+5tzxqCqWBZxJC3fKi 4529eJpyXvWbbeN3sgseqCftNyuW3TwIrVzEGWu8gkDegP83YbOO8TLgDN3TnhXWJSum ZslvhOWCm0YynbRGYb11ueD59DWKgCWGEFQfqlM7u/i/4s2Pd4eqR8K0oqSfOxlKZ49E mCTGbBg4MzzpUis9yigdAOVW7c7KyxJOyPSeoJs12luIFlyZQO8X69Y0WkxhzgonqK6b HCTOSY7eL6VTvEW0au6r41lsry7qvOYtDujzppOnNVGoiJvp36gs646l/DfM+V/33Im6 sJag== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlP/+xaoRSuQquIWkuAhhYICGKx13A6NXklwxB6akOtyM7V+zuXTKsGchQ8suK9NK/dyQYf X-Received: by 10.50.141.163 with SMTP id rp3mr6808060igb.26.1445164581428; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.200] (CPEbc4dfb965b33-CMbc4dfb965b30.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com. [99.236.139.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d21sm2392649ioj.27.2015.10.18.03.36.20 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:36:20 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Yonas Yanfa Subject: Depreciate and remove gbde Message-ID: <56237623.5010702@fizk.net> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 06:36:19 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:36:22 -0000 Hi, It seems geli is the standard way of encrypting disks. It's extremely flexible and usually recommended by the community over gbde. Moreover, geli is mentioned a lot more in the mailing lists and forums. gbde's man page explicitly says that gbde is experimental and should be considered suspect. That seems reason enough to finally depreciate and remove it in favour of geli. The Encrypting Disk Partitions page in the Handbook discusses gbde first, and describes geli as an alternative. This seems odd, shouldn't this be the other way around? Is there any objection to removing gbde? How many people use gbde? When have you used gbde over geli, and why? Cheers, Yonas -- Yonas Yanfa In Love With Open Source Drupal :: GitHub :: Mozilla :: iPhone fizk.net | yonas@fizk.net