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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:47:43PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> ingenious, but, no we can't do that..
> As I mentionned.. someone suggested using 'dump'
> to extract the file from raw disk and checksumming that... :-)

If it is SCSI, you could probably put a second controler on the
SCSI bus, and when you want to checksum the file you mount the
filesystem read-only using using the device for the same disk via
the second SCSI controler.

	David.