Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:06:46 -0500 From: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@purdue.edu> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Entombing for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199904162006.PAA05648@poynting.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> of "Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:55:37 MST." <199904161955.MAA59781@apollo.backplane.com>
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> I've been thinking about this enombing thing... well, I hate to > say it, but crowbaring into libc is *not* the right way to do > it. It's just too intrusive. The right way to do it would be > to write a device driver similar to NULLFS which handles backing > up the files, thus giving the sysad the option to use such a > device to mount-through those partitions that the sysad wants to > keep checkpointed. Also, putting such intrusive code into libc > would be fairly dangreous from a security point of view even if > it is turned off. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> That makes sense, but do stackable filesystems work properly in FreeBSD? I have many uses for the null and union filesystems, but they seem to tend to cause panics. ajk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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