On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:28:51PM +0200, Leo Unglaub wrote:
> Hey friends,
> i have two identical ssd drives in my laptop. sd0 and sd1. I created a Raid
> 1 (mirroring) on them resulting in sd3. I used the following command:
> 
> > bioctl -c 1 -l sd0a,sd1a softraid0
> 
> 
> On the resulting disk i created sd3b with 2 GB Swap and sd3a with 100GB with
> a type RAID.
> 
> Now i want to put a crypto layer (Cryptoraid) on the resulting sd3a. I
> wanted to use the following command:
> 
> > bioctl -c C -l sd3a softraid0
> 
> But i get the following error message: bioctl: unable to read passphrase.
> 
> Do you have any ideas why this is happening?

I think this is due to the fact that nested disciplines are not (yet?)
supported. See stsp@'s notes on softraid:
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2015-softraid-boot.pdf
page 5 where it says:

        Disciplines cannot be nested yet!
        So no CRYPTO on top of RAID 1, for instance

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