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Date:      Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:59:37 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More geom classes?
Message-ID:  <41AF3BE9.8050108@fer.hr>
In-Reply-To: <20041202140527.GT72822@calleigh.elde.net>
References:  <41AE1B68.5040003@fer.hr> <20041202140527.GT72822@calleigh.elde.net>

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Terje Elde wrote:

> One thing that would be funny is GEOM XOR, with the possability of setting up
> two (or more) volumes, such that you write random bytes to one drive, and
> write the data xored with the random to the other.

I could easily do that with ggate for fun, if somebody'll use it :) (Of 
course, performance will probably suck, it being in userland...)

> Introduce RAID3 or 5 and add an extra disk, and you've for N-1 of M redundancy
> in your heavily encrypted volume. ;)

Oh yes :)

A password will still be required, for generating the random sequence...



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