On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Joerg Jung <m...@umaxx.net> wrote: > > > Am 15.10.2014 um 00:58 schrieb Vladislav Manchev <v...@bin.bz>: > > > > I need to set up a few machines in the coming weeks and was wondering > > what's the status of stacked softraid and especially RAID1C discipline - > > i.e. CRYPTO on top of RAID1? > > Works fine here. > > > Unfortunately I don't have the hardware right now so I can't really try > it > > out, but any input is appreciated. > > > > Would using a hardware RAID controller and setting up softraid CRYPTO > > discipline on top of it do the trick? > > This would also work. > > > Is this approach recommended for > > production use? > > IMHO, softraid is never a good idea for important production stuff and > hardware raid should be preferred. > > > One last question -- can you point me to particular RAID Controllers that > > are well supported under OpenBSD? > > areca > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/arc.4?query=arc > > > Some of my readily available options are Adaptec RAID 6405E, LSI 3ware > > 9750-4i, LSI MegaRAID 9271-4i and HP Smart Array P222 but I'm open to any > > suggestions that will play better with OpenBSD. > > search the archives... >
Thanks for the input. I forgot to mention that my goal is actually FDE combined with RAID1 and not just setting up a CRYPTO volume on top of RAID1. Any insights? Best, Vladislav
