On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:09:22PM +0100, Chris wrote: > Hi I am concerned about the availabilities of these encryptions in > freebsd releases that are marked stable. > > It seems gbde has a problem when the the data written goes over the > lba boundary around lba48. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2007-August/002524.html > > I suffered this problem error example below. Usage at the time was > approx 150gig when I first noticed it. > > g_vfs_done():ad6s1c.bde[WRITE(offset=493964558336, length=131072)]error = 1 > > After reading about this problem on a few diff hits (all with no > response on fixes) I tried geli. > > However I seen this in geli within an hour of using it. > > GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=1). > ad6s1c.eli[WRITE(offset=0, length=131072)] I've been running a GELI encrypted /home partition on 6.2-STABLE amd64 for months without problems. I've had trouble with GELI on usb harddisks, but that seems to be related to the USB/ATAPI controller.
The message seems to come from /usr/src/sys/geom/eli/g_eli_integrity.c, in the function g_eli_auth_write_done. But for a more detailed analysys, you'd have to set kern.geom.eli.debug to 3, and see what else pops up. The headers indicate that the error number is used according to errno.h, which lists 1 as being "Operation not permitted". Both GELI and GBDE fail with the same length of request. So the error might depend on the underlaying code in the kernel (bio* functions). Are you sure that the disk and controller are working properly? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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