>similar CRYPTO on RAID 1 configuration Could you please supply some details of how did you do that?
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 02:33:51AM +1000, Joel Sing wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Anyone having any experience with putting an softraid CRYPTO partition > > on top of a softraid RAID 1? In terms of performance? > > > > I'd like to build a file server that favors redundancy, availability and > > privacy over performance. The latter within limits though, hence my > > initial question. Private use only. Me, my family and ... friends. > > > > I'm planning to use 3 x 1TB drives in RAID 1. No FDE since > > "availability" involves the possibility of unattended booting; like > > after a power outage while being abroad/out of town, in which case I'd > > have to ssh in to the box and bioctl(8) the encrypted volume. Otherwise > > the PC is an old Pentium 4 3.40GHz with 3GB RAM which as of today runs > > fine as a file server with 2 x 500GB disks in softraid RAID 1. > > You would get much better throughput with a CPU that supports AESNI, however > unless you're wanting near-disk level performance, you shouldn't have any > problems. FWIW one of my servers (handles mail, etc) is a Sun Fire V210 > (sparc64) machine with 2x1GHz CPU, 2GB RAM and a pair of SCSI drives - it > runs perfectly well in a similar CRYPTO on RAID 1 configuration. That said, > you'd be best to set it up and measure the performance to ensure it will meet > your needs. > > > Sorry if my question does not belong on @misc. I've done quite some > > homework but could not find information pertinent to my case and would > > like to hear any arguments for or against before I spend many hours on > > copying hundres of gigabytes to potentially no avail. > > > > Regards, > > > > Erling > -- > > "Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile." > -- Mary Ritter Beard
