My original idea was to post a dual how-to for both softraid and svnd, but due to the size of the posts with screenshots, I have decided against that. Since softraid is the path forward in the OpenBSD world I will start here. This post is not dial-up friendly, so be patient while it loads from my poor server. This post is part of my larger OpenBSD crypto series for which the other posts are below: ...
Let me start by saying I am not a benchmarker. At all…so these results are posted for friendly banter and I make no claim to their validity. Consider this the glxgears of filesystem testing. The testing was done with two identical OpenBSD 4.8 installs running in VMware Fusion 3.1 on a Mac Mini Server. The bonnie test was done to the same /home partitions mounted in crypto volumes. In green you will find the winner for each category. ...
It is unfortunate, but the OpenBSD disk encryption tool-sets are no where near as mature as those found in FreeBSD or Linux. You would think with such a security focused operating system that disk encryption would be a no brainer. You would be wrong. On OpenBSD -misc mailing list you often get this impression with them: XKCD - Security ...