Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:09:50 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure Filesystem Message-ID: <20010816150950.M38066@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200108161948.MAA03510@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:48:59PM -0700 References: <200108161948.MAA03510@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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* Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> [010816 14:49] wrote: > Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk> wrote: > > > > Look at /usr/ports/security/cfs. It's a useland crypto-filesystem that > > > runs over NFS. > > > > I'd say, it's a daemon pretending to be an NFS server. It's running locally > > on port other than NFS. > > > > Very nice implementation, I use it a lot. A small problem with it is that > > it seems to support 7-bit file names only. > > A bigger problem is that doing anything with a file uses up 1-2KB > PER FILE. If you want to see cfsd grow *really big*, do a "find ." of > any large cfs-controlled hierarchy with lots of files. I'd really like > to put my MH mail messages under cfs, but I've got too many files (I > can't afford having a 200+MB cfsd). > > The memory is not freed until you unmount (and then, the memory is > only free'd for use by other cfs mounts -- the process size does not, of > course, shrink). This is what swap is for. :) If cfsd doesn't touch all that now unused memory it'll simply be paged out and probably only paged in occasionally. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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