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I have to say that OpenBSD is my favorite of the *BSDs. The only thing that it lacks, that I wish it had, is a journaling file system (fsck takes forever on tod
by RexRollman 16y ago
I have to say that OpenBSD is my favorite of the *BSDs. The only thing that it lacks, that I wish it had, is a journaling file system (fsck takes forever on today's large hard drives).
EDIT: And whole disk encryption. I am really surprised, given OpenBSD's security goals, that no one has implemented this.
- protomyth 16y agoI think I would be in heaven if someone ported HAMMER to OpenBSD. I use OpenBSD for a lot of our servers. It is amazingly fast to setup a new machine.
- RexRollman 16y agoI've read lots of good things about Hammer. I've been wanting to give DragonFly a try because of it but it doesn't like my computer (the install CD freezes at startup).
- protomyth 16y agoI'm going to setup a new fileserver using it. I think it will perform quite nicely.
- there 16y agoopenbsd has a software raid mechanism to encrypt partitions. it is not yet bootable, so there must still be a small boot partition, but everything else can live on an encrypted raid set. bootable support is coming very soon so the entire disk can be encrypted (or be on any other raid configuration). i've been using encrypted softraid for a long time on my laptops and on a central backup server (which has a raid 1 mirrored set across 2 disks, then an encrypted volume on top of that).
- 16s 16y agoWhole disk encryption is built-in all you have to do is enable it during install... here's a how-to... OpenBSD frowns upon howtos, but here it is anyway: http://16s.us/OpenBSD/softraid.txt http://16s.us/OpenBSD/softraid.txt