> Am 13.05.2016 um 21:56 schrieb Ted Unangst <[email protected]>: > > Theo Buehler wrote: >>> 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 > > that will cause problems later
Which problems? This should really be mentioned in softraid(4) CAVEATS section then, no? Personally, I'm running CRYPTO on top of a large RAID1 for years without any problems.
