On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:37:53PM +0200, Sebastian Rother wrote:
> > >
> > > Please add the following to man softraid to enable others to get a clue
> > > how to encrypt a partition with sofraid.
> >
oh great, now you are cc'ing my private mail to misc. and insulting the
people who i work with. and you wonder why you get short shrift!
> > ok, first off, please mail diffs in future. it takes 10 times longer to
> > see what people want without a diff.
>
> But I did not wanted to provide a diff because your phrasing is just
> superior.
>
that's not the point. if you send a diff i can see what you want. it
means i don;t have to wade through 2 pages of insults about other
developers.
>
> The method I descriped is NOT mentioned anywhere.
> People have to assume that softraid just works with WHOLE disks.
> Specialy for the encryption this is wrong so the manpage is missleading.
> It is not my point of view but I got already serval mails where people
> ask me how to set up such a crypto partition.
>
nowhere does this page say an entire disk must be used. it says
"all component partitions". as i understand it, that is correct.
>
> --
> Either you have already created a partition you like to encrypt or you
> create a partition during the following step:
>
> disklabel -E wd0
>
> Now either create (a %LETTER) or modify (m %LETTER) a partition.
this is disklabel(8) stuff.
> Take care that the FS TYPE is NOT "4.2BSD" but "RAID".
softraid(4):
All component partitions must be of type RAID. Some
platforms, such as SUN, are not capable of using the RAID
partition type. The 4.2BSD partition type should be used
on such platforms.
>
> After you did that please save the changes and leave the interactive
> mode. You can now use bioctl to attach the partition to softraid:
>
> bioctl -c C -l /dev/wd0%LETTER softraid0
>
softraid(4):
Assemble the RAID volume:
# bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/wd1a,/dev/wd2a,/dev/wd3a softraid0
bioctl(8):
-l special[,special,...]
Use special device list to create within the softraid(4)
framework. Requires -c.
this adds nothing that is not already there.
i'm not saying the page cannot be improved, but this is just adding
another example, once that users should be able to come up with if they
read the associated pages.
i think an improvement is more likely to come from the wording of the
text. i'm willing to look at any improvements you might have for that.
if you send a diff. calmly. without insults.
jmc
