On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Jiri B wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 02:33:51AM +1000, Joel Sing wrote:
> > [...snip...] 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.
>
> I'm confused. Is it possible to have RAID1 and CRYPTO on top of that as
> boot device? It did not work for me...
No, that will not work since the boot loader will not know how to handle the
nested volumes - the OP said:
> 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.
And that will work, since you boot off RAID 1 and then bring up a CRYPTO
volume manually. Once we do stacked properly we should have RAID1C and you
would be able to boot from that...
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