From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 06:02:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA29407 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA29400 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:02:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA03517; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:56:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA01771; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:55:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA06865; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:55:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:55:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712151355.IAA06865@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg Lehey Cc: grobin@accessv.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing Floppy Drive In-Reply-To: <19971215091243.56481@lemis.com> References: <3494467F.6B48DB7D@accessv.com> <19971215091243.56481@lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey wrote: > Normally, it's not a good idea to put file systems on floppy. One useful, though admittedly arcane, exception case: It's often useful to put a tripwire database on a read-only floppy. I did that rather frequently at my previous employer, for machines exposed to the Internet. It works reasonably well if you're using tripwire to detect changes in system binaries, system configuration files, and the like. The database will be small enough to fit on a floppy-based file system, and tripwire can be pointed directly at the database file. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. -- Leonardo da Vinci