Wouldn't it be much easier that before I create the bioctl softraid CRYPTO I would dd zero the psychical disk for the first.. dunno, 10 MBytes?
2013/11/25 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> > On 11/25/13 04:07, obsd, cgi wrote: > > according to: > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bioctl > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m count=1 > > > > is needed. but Why? > > > > I've actually found it more useful to zero the raw RAID partition than > the "assembled" softraid "disk". This takes care of the case where > previous softraid disks had been created, which can be quite frustrating > when they pop up again unexpectedly. > > That's from experience...haven't been able to convince the softraid > developers, so I suspect there's something to *also* zeroing the > assembled disk. > > It takes but a couple seconds to do. Just do it. > > Nick.
