I notice it for a while now that SVND is incredible slow related to WRITE SPEED. Also I do see a lot of "biowait" with top related to newfs for example.
vnconfig -cK 8888 -S saltfile /dev/sd0d /dev/svnd1c disklabel -E svnd1 -> a a -> r -> w -> q newfs /dev/rsvnd1a If you've serval houndret GBs that gonna take a loooong time. Also you can not restore a backup quickly because of the uberproor write performance (it feels like being slower then PIO 3..). On the other hand softraid can not handle partitions. At least it wont do it... bioctl -c C -l /dev/sd0d softraid0 Heyho "invalid metadata format".. So what other choices does a OpenBSD user have to encrypt a HDD? Also: Did nobody else notice that? Don't others use these functions? :-) And as a side note to softraid: Also it might be clever to add MORE then 1 softraid device. Some people might have more then 1 HDD... :-) Kind regards, Sebastian
