Hi, No problem all works, but I would love to clarify below to be sure I don;t do something wrong as the old and new FAQ14 changed in that aspect and I don't see a reason for the changes.
In the new FaQ14 revised version here: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid I wonder if there is a reason to offset so much space at the start of the disk for the mirror setup but not for the encrypted full disk version? I used to do it as this at the install time based on the old write up from Nick@. basically full disk as p partition on each drive with the offset [64] and use the p partition as the RAID 1 and proceed as normal. Now I see the fill disk only as full disk encryption, not as mirror one. May be a stupid question, but just want to be sure I didn't miss something in the last few changes that may need this for something I do not know. Also, last question I see the example use a instead of p. I guess it doesn't make any differences as partition on each disks and the softraid have nothing in common? I thought that may be the partition on each drive and the RAID 1 had to be different based on the previous FAQ version. Sorry for the question that may be stupid. I have the old habit to always read the FAQ on new version before doing the work in case something changed from the previous version of OS setup. Best, Daniel PS: On this part: "Because the new device probably has a lot of garbage where you expect a master boot record and disklabel, zeroing the first chunk of it is highly recommended. Be very careful with this command; issuing it on the wrong device could lead to a very bad day. This assumes that the new softraid device was created as sd0. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2c bs=1m count=1" Shouldn't the sd0 be sd2 as it used the raw version rsd2c in the last part of the text "...was created as sd0."? ==================== Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 6.0 installation program. Starting non-interactive mode in 5 seconds... (I)nstall, (U)pgrade, (A)utoinstall or (S)hell? s # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV sd1 sd2 # fdisk -iy sd0 Writing MBR at offset 0. # fdisk -iy sd1 Writing MBR at offset 0. # disklabel -E sd0 Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) > a p offset: [64] size: [586067201] * FS type: [4.2BSD] RAID > w > q No label changes. # disklabel -E sd1 Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) > a p offset: [64] size: [586067201] * FS type: [4.2BSD] RAID > w > q No label changes. # bioctl -c 1 -l sd0p,sd1p softraid0 sd2 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 006> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd2: 286165MB, 512 bytes/sector, 586066673 sectors softraid0: RAID 1 volume attached as sd2 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2c bs=1m count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.004 secs (225742949 bytes/sec) # exit
