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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."

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  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.

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    1. Re:Already done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Except that FreeNAS sucks rotten zombie balls, but other than that, yeah, it's just dandy, hurray for shitty options instead of good ones! Typical jagoff nobody on Slashdot, too stupid to know their ass from a hole in the ground, much less an proper tool for a job.

  2. Re:One link in the chain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The word is "kudos". Saying "kudo's" means "beloning to kudo" which I don't think you meant. You also wouldn't say "congratulation's" since you don't mean "belonging to congratulation" -- plural forms of words never use apostrophes. In other words, it's not: plural form's of word's never use apostrophe's.

    Now, if you're in grade 5 then I can understand the confusion. If you're a high school student or beyond then there really is no excuse for making such basic errors in grammar.

  3. 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*
  4. Re:Pretty In-depth by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

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