> On Mar 24, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 08:46:09AM -0700, Ken wrote: >> I've read things that allude to a lack of support... >> >> "Much like support for RAID-5, support for encrypted filesystems is >> experimental." - Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition (2013), page 166. >> >> But a better source than this slowly aging tome is the more regularly >> updated website: >> >> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE >> >> Which seems to indicate FDE is supported (unless you are also doing RAID on >> the same device). >> >> All-in-all... I can see how some admins might feel like they sometimes get >> mixed signals. > > Before installboot(8) was made smart enough to deal with softraid > volumes (which happened after 2013 I believe), FDE was indeed tricky. > > Nowadays it's fairly easy but the installer script still does not support > setting up disks with FDE so manual steps as shown in the FAQ are needed > to set it up. >
FWIW, I just did this for the first time in the last week or two. Following the instructions in the FAQ was easy. It works great. Jordon
