Adventures in read-only softraid

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-05-26 from the raid me softly dept.

Recently, Crystal Kolipe found that attaching softraid volumes as read-only devices did not work.

Then what to do?

Fix the code and make it work, of course!

The full story is available as “Stay, (write), protected!”, taking us through the steps of adding a feature to OpenBSD. Enjoy!

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By n/a (Cabal) on 2025-05-26 18:03

Wow, that website is unreadable.

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1. By d.c. (d.c.) on 2025-05-27 16:31
  
  Indeed it is. But I like the content. Doesn't leave out the basics :-)
  
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