Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-23 Thread Vinny
Fabian Keil wrote: Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Vinny wrote: ... [...] I'm using ZFS on geli on my production server with 2 SATA2 disks. Just create and attach the geli devices in /dev and then create a zpool i.e. with # zpool create

Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-22 Thread Oliver Peter
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Vinny wrote: ... P.S. Anyone running ZFS on multiple geli providers? as above. Does that mean you are/aren't or have/haven't run ZFS on top of, say, 3 geli encrypted disks? I'm curious as to whether there are many people who have tried it,

Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-22 Thread Fabian Keil
Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Vinny wrote: ... P.S. Anyone running ZFS on multiple geli providers? as above. Does that mean you are/aren't or have/haven't run ZFS on top of, say, 3 geli encrypted disks? I'm curious as to

Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm wondering if soft-updates on UFS2 should be enabled on a geli provided disk, da1.eli, for example. That is, same as without geli. geli device behaves like normal disk/partition, just it's encrypted. P.S. Anyone running ZFS on multiple geli providers? as above.

Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-20 Thread Vinny
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm wondering if soft-updates on UFS2 should be enabled on a geli provided disk, da1.eli, for example. That is, same as without geli. geli device behaves like normal disk/partition, just it's encrypted. Wojciech, Thanks for your answer. I was wondering what the

geli and soft-updates

2008-09-19 Thread Vinny
Hi, I'm wondering if soft-updates on UFS2 should be enabled on a geli provided disk, da1.eli, for example. That is, should I use -U: newfs -U /dev/da1.eli or not use -U? newfs /dev/da1.eli Will -U help with crash corruption protection on a geli provider? Does my question make sense?