This should work but there are a few caveats. It has to be same arch (endiannes really), the softraid code has to be at the same level. Id'd have to see your disklabel & dmesg to say more but I can assure you that I do this with USB keys.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:21:16PM +0000, Matthew Szudzik wrote: > Can a softraid volume be shared between two different computers? Here's > my scenario: > > I have two OpenBSD machines, A and B. Both are running OpenBSD 4.4. > Machine A is my primary computer, and I regularly back it up on an > external hard drive, encrypted with softraid. My plan is to copy the > backup to machine B in the event that machine A fails. But this doesn't > seem to work. > > I can reliably read/write to the encrypted hard drive on machine A, but > when I attach the drive to machine B and type > > bioctl -c C -l /dev/sd0a softraid0 > > I am asked to type my passphrase twice, and then when the encrypted > volume is attached, it is completely empty. > > Can anyone confirm this behavior? Am I doing something wrong?
