Following this old thread (Feb 08) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120345491121853&w=2 , I'm wondering what's the status of booting with root filesystem in softraid in 4.4 or in -current. It was said by Marco Peereboom in the same thread that this was planned.
I wanted to test new softraid crypto of OpenBSD for full disk encryption, but I'm not able to find anything on using initial ramdisks like Linux can do to mount the encrypted root. Is it possible to get the softraid online before mounting the root filesystem, or remount it over then? With linux I do this with an USB drive, and I hope I can do it with PXE for OpenBSD. Also, just a few questions about the crypto softraid: what's the encryption method used by default? XTS+AES? Can it be changed? Are there others? Is it possible to keep the keys out of the drive, like Linux' loop-aes can do, or do they have to stay, like dm-crypt? Thanks!
