From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 17 5: 5: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E7DB151EE for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 05:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au) Received: (qmail 23044 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Apr 1999 11:52:14 -0000 Message-ID: <19990417115214.23043.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:52:14 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Andrew J. Korty" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Entombing for FreeBSD References: <199904160332.WAA28377@poynting.physics.purdue.edu> <19990416113734.18605.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <199904161955.MAA59781@apollo.backplane.com> In-reply-to: <199904161955.MAA59781@apollo.backplane.com> of Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:55:37 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes: > 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. I am completely in agreement with this. It's not something for libc and it needs to be kept at arm's length from everything else if it's ever to be part of the core of FreeBSD. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message