Crypto
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:42:27PM +0100, Cesare Gargano wrote:
> On 12/12/08 11:07 -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > It isn't pretty but:
> > dd if=/dev/wd1a skip=8244 bs=1 count=4 | hexdump -C
> > 4+0 records in
> > 4+0 records out
> > 4 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (3263 bytes/sec)
> > 00000000 41 00 00 00 |A...|
> > 00000004
> >
> > wd1a is the cooked RAID partition. In this case this is an AOE target.
> > If it was crypto it would have been 4c 00 00 00 |C...|
> >
> > Currently the possible values are: 0x00 (RAID 0), 0x01 (RAID 1), 0x41
> > (AOE target), 0x4c (CRYPTO) & 0x61 (AOE initiator).
> > Note that softraid is not endian neutral so on big endian machines the
> > numbers are flipped.
>
>
> wd0i is my RAID partition:
>
> .. $ dd if=/dev/wd0i skip=8244 bs=1 count=4 | hexdump -C
> 4+0 records in
> 4+0 records out
> 4 bytes transferred in 0.000 secs (11799 bytes/sec)
> 00000000 43 00 00 00 |C...|
> 00000004
> .. $
>
> what does 0x43 means?
>
> regards,
> c.
>
> >
> > FWIW,
> > /marco
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Michael wrote:
> > > Todd T. Fries schrieb:
> > > > tried
> > > >
> > > > bioctl -h softraid0
> > > > lately?
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, yes... but it only works if I already activated the softraid
> > > device...
> > >
> > > # bioctl -h softraid0
> > > Volume Status Size Device
> > > softraid0 0 Online 3.8G sd1 CRYPTO
> > > 0 Online 3.8G 0:0.0 noencl <sd0a>
> > > # bioctl -d sd1
> > > # bioctl -h softraid0
> > >
> > >
> > > ...but I would like to know what kind of type sd0a is before I try to use
> > >
> > > bioctl -c [01C] -l /dev/... softraid0
> > >
> > > to be able to use bioctl from a script, only for CRYPTO.
> > >
> > > Only other way I currently see is to set the label from disklabel of sd0
> > > to some name and check what to do from that information.
