geli encrypted memory disk?

[Eric Anderson]

Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 from the 17th I wanted to play a bit with 
> geli. First try was an encryptet memory disk.
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/sdisk bs=2028 count=220
> mdconfig -a -t vnode -S 2048 -f /var/sdisk -u 3
> geli init -a AES -s 2048 /dev/md3
> 
> Geli asks me the new password twice and then exits with the following error:
> 
> Cannot store metadata on /dev/md3: Invalid argument.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Probably the bs=2028 is messing things up?

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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