Hello
I guess I kind of triggered this discussion since I asked Sebastian
yesterday if softraid crypto works only on whole disks or if it is
applicable on partitions too. I looked into some tutorials, the archive
and in the softraid manpages, but all examples used whole disks, so I've
got uncertain how to start.
After Sebastian pointed out that I just need to create a partition of
type RAID, initialize it using bioctl and go on as in the softraid
manpage, things became clear to me.
Well, I can only speak for myself. But if in the softraid manpage, where
the CRYPTO discipline is explained, at least it would have been
mentioned that it encrypts data on a single disk AND/OR partition,
things would have been more obvious to me. BTW I wasn't aware that
bioctl creates a new volume/disk out of my partition.
Anyway, once again, as it worked out for me I was impressed how easy and
straight forward things actually are on OpenBSD.
Thanks @hackers for this wonderful OS and thanks Sebastian for pointing
me into the right direction.
Marc
