Hi! Surprised by seeing streaks of zeros every 4k on my geli encrypted drive, I realized they are zero-padded sectors (i.e. the 9th sector underlying every encrypted 4K). I was wondering if it’d be a good idea to do this instead:
[freebsd .../geom/eli]$ svn diff Index: g_eli_integrity.c =================================================================== --- g_eli_integrity.c (revision 343023) +++ g_eli_integrity.c (working copy) @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ * only partially filled. */ if (bp->bio_cmd == BIO_WRITE) - memset(data + sc->sc_alen + data_secsize, 0, + arc4random_buf(data + sc->sc_alen + data_secsize, encr_secsize - sc->sc_alen - data_secsize); } [freebsd .../geom/eli]$ Thanks! — Arjan _______________________________________________ freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"