From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 16 13:10: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7083637B410 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 31EF981D0D; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:09:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:09:50 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Darryl Okahata Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure Filesystem Message-ID: <20010816150950.M38066@elvis.mu.org> References: <200108161948.MAA03510@mina.soco.agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108161948.MAA03510@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:48:59PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Darryl Okahata [010816 14:49] wrote: > Konstantin Chuguev 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