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Old October 5th, 2010, 02:21
THEJEWRaVeN THEJEWRaVeN is offline
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Default ZFS, Raidz, Labels, and Encryption
Hello all. I'm giving the forum a try before dropping a question to the following:

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom



Problem:

When attempting to create a ZFS RAIDZ pool, I get the following message:

Code:
cannot create 'tank': one or more devices is currently unavailable

Command used to make this occur:

Code:
zpool create tank raidz label/P1SG136D.eli label/P2SGY10S.eli label/P3SG3ERV.eli label/P4SGC4QY.eli \
label/P5SGYJSC.eli label/P6SG49JV.eli label/P7SG9H9H.eli label/P8SGDF8G.eli

System:

Asus M3N WS
Athlon II X2 240
8gb Kingston DDR2 ECC
8 X 1.5tb Seagate SATA drives
60gb IDE drive
HighPoint RocketRAID 2220 PCI-X
PCI RivaTNT


Background Reading as to how I arrived here:

1. Setting up an encrypted ZFS with FreeBSD

2. GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

3. geli Manpage

4. [Solved] zpool create <pool> drives fails

5. ZFS Unavailable


Overview of What I've Done:

Reading #1 was used as a rough guideline to make a ZFS pool with geli encryption. I used Reading #4 & #5 to label my drives. I believe one should be able to create an encrypted ZFS pool using labels due to Reading #2. The commands from Reading #1 were slightly modified with help from Reading #3.


Code:

Code:
glabel label -v P1SG136D /dev/da0
glabel label -v P2SGY10S /dev/da1
...

This labels each drive attached to my HighPoint controller with the Port # it is attached to, the company brand, and part of the serial number so that I can easily identify which drive has a problem in the future.



Code:
dd if=/dev/random of=/usr/home/THEJEW/P1SG136D.key bs=64 count=1
dd if=/dev/random of=/usr/home/THEJEW/P2SGY10S.key bs=64 count=1
...
Encryption keys are created and placed within my home folder. Home directory is also encrypted, but passphrase is entered at boot (ie. keys are available).


Code:
geli init -a HMAC/SHA256 -e AES -l 256 -s 4096 -K /usr/home/THEJEW/P1SG136D.key /dev/label/P1SG136D
geli init -a HMAC/SHA256 -e AES -l 256 -s 4096 -K /usr/home/THEJEW/P2SGY10S.key /dev/label/P2SGY10S
...
Preparing to attach key to label to create *.eli in "label" folder. *.eli files do appear in Dolphin.


Code:
geli attach -k /usr/home/THEJEW/P1SG136D.key /dev/label/P1SG136D
geli attach -k /usr/home/THEJEW/P2SGY10S.key /dev/label/P2SGY10S
...
Attaching.


Attempting to create zpool fails (see code in Problem section). Everything attempted as root.



I imagine I have missed something fairly obvious. Any help is appreciated.
Last edited by lme@; October 5th, 2010 at 09:02. Reason: Please break longer lines.
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