From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 7 07:08:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA04827 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:08:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA04807 Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA19245; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:08:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:08:00 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9602071508.AA19245@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sup%d is broken - I agree In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < Why not have some other app generate a sanity file just prior to sup > synchronizing itself? This is trivial to do with mtree(8). `mtree -c -k type,size,md5digest' will generate a file such as the following: # user: wollman # machine: khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu # tree: /homes/www/fccdb/tv # date: Wed Feb 7 10:07:00 1996 # . /set type=file . type=dir size=512 dadb.dat size=2185146 md5digest=308569da7ad8edeaf6c091c220e79dcc dadiction.txt \ size=20260 md5digest=86157fa1ba227d1b354eca408d5ee062 dadiction.txt.bak \ size=22952 md5digest=49146ae1f7dc7c0f2fbc6d4d0269c2a5 dadiction.txt~ \ size=20708 md5digest=594ed1815da95bf7c5b5388b633fe53d tvdadb.dat size=2354271 md5digest=a988653e01e540d6064038f978b7c7a0 tvdadiction.txt \ size=22952 md5digest=49146ae1f7dc7c0f2fbc6d4d0269c2a5 tvdadiction.txt~ \ size=22952 md5digest=49146ae1f7dc7c0f2fbc6d4d0269c2a5 tvdb.dat size=5134864 md5digest=cac9bbf8490171606a6f1ad343e07752 tvdiction.txt \ size=25955 md5digest=3ca56d717d0b84aa0f36a390601ab1a7 tvdiction.txt.bak \ size=25955 md5digest=3ca56d717d0b84aa0f36a390601ab1a7 tvdiction.txt~ \ size=25955 md5digest=3ca56d717d0b84aa0f36a390601ab1a7 .. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant