Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:23:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Interesting NFS problem with -current Message-ID: <199507251323.PAA11039@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950725103308.230C-100000@minnow.render.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Jul 25, 95 10:36:42 am
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As Doug Rabson wrote: > > Hmm. No this wouldn't work because if the server rebooted, then all the > clients would lose. What we need is a unique signature for the disk. > What about an MD5 checksum for the first few hundred blocks? I'm not sure. The first 0x8000 bytes are usually crap on an iso9660 CD. Perhaps there's some sort of unique ID already provided by the standard? Does somebody know 9660 better? Of course, the ZIP drives are in another boat. A checksum might be a good idea, yes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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