On 17/04/2021 21:18, Karl Denninger wrote:
This also makes "geli groups" trivial in /etc/rc.conf for attachment at boot time irrespective of whether they physically come up in the same place (again typically yes, but in the case of a failure or you plug it into a different adapter.....)
Ah, now this interests me. Because I was setting a variable called 'geli_devices=' in /etc/rc.conf to contain all my drives. But then one day I forgot to add one and it worked anyway, and then I subsequently discovered it works even if I dont have that variable at all, so I no longer bother. Never looked into why I dont need it - I suspected it was because all the devices are marked as requiring a password at boot time so it found them via searching for that without needing the variable.
But yes, the GPT labelling thing is a very good reason for keeping them partitioned on a physical machine.
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