geli encryption

I want to setup full-disk encryption on ZFS. Which method is better for doing that - gdbe or geli? Which encryption tool is better for encrypting swap and which is better for encrypting single partitions? Which tool has better compatibility with Linux - gdbe or geli? Which tool provides better...

I have been using freenas 11.1 and I posted on the freenas forums the following I had a RaidZ volume with 4 drives and after detaching the volume I am not able to import the volume. I am getting and error (the following disks failed to attach). I did some looking and I found out that I have 2...

Hello there, just started to explore encryption in FreeBSD and got some questions. Trying to add encrypted partition on FreeBSD10.3 GELI/Blowfish-CBC. AES on / and /swap works fine, but I can't add an additional encrypted partition using Blowfish. Here is the way I did it: # mount -o exec...

Hello, I am writing a driver for PCI crypto card. The driver supports both synch and asynch mode. Problem is when offloading auth+cipher(chained) operations to hardware with geli when driver is in asynch mode. Either writes or reads are always going bad. newfs throws the error "newfs: can't...

PROS: Tow OSes taking full advantage of machine resources CONS: Missing share data capabilities but it is an upcoming fix. So far so good, dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD by taking full advantage of the machine resources. The mix involves hosting the FreeBSD root partition on same hard...