On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:13:36 +1000 Da Rock <freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> 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-unsubscr...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
