Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Building a Fully Encrypted NAS On OpenBSD

Posted by kdawson on from the peace-of-mind dept.

mistermark writes "Two years ago this community discussed my encrypted file server. That machine has kept running and running up until a failing drive and a power outage this last week. So, it's time to revise everything and add RAID to it as well. Now you can have an on-the-fly encrypting/decrypting NAS with the data security of RAID, all in one. Here is the how-to."

3 of 196 comments (clear)

  1. Already done by DogDude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, it's already done. It's called FreeNas. Typical OSS advocate. Re-inventing the wheel... yet again.

    --
    I don't respond to AC's.
  2. What a moron by pugdk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I somehow forgot to do filesystem-checks on the 'virtual' encrypted filesystem and exactly there were a lot of errors to repair (and that caused the machine to hang and/or go back to the debugger even when copying to it). So, as a lesson, if the shit really hit the fan and your machine acts up like mine did (for the first time in 2+ years), make sure you also fsck the svnd0c (in my case).


    I mean seriously, the guy just now realized he should fsck his encrypted volume.... I would trust his howto as far as I could throw it. Why the hell did this make the slashdot frontpage? *sighs*
  3. Re:Pretty In-depth by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Webmin : because EVERYONE has a web browser available. Idiot.

    --
    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter