From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 20 6:30:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tango.entreri.com (tango.entreri.com [205.219.158.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1127437B42C for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dp@penix.org) Received: from penix.org (Toronto-ppp221365.sympatico.ca [64.228.106.182]) by tango.entreri.com (8.10.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f3KDTn121656; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:30:03 -0500 Message-ID: <3AE03CA9.736E15AA@penix.org> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:42:01 -0400 From: Paul Halliday X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dilemma. References: <3ADF04E8.55D0888E@penix.org> <20010419130630B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > You probably want to use the soft updates "snapshot" mechanism to take > a frozen snapshot of the filesystem state and then run your > checksumming/fingerprinting scan on that. > Ok, that sounds like a good idea. Not really knowing what this was I went and read http://www.mckusick.com/softdep. Clever and interesting however this doc seemed to pertain to theory only. I performed a little browse on the mailing list and found nothing very relevent on softupdates ie. semantics. I checked /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs and their was a softupdates readme that just covers tunefs (enabling soft updates) and a URL which offered more theory. So, just how would I create this snapshot? > - Jordan > > Paul Halliday ============================================================================ Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Web: http://dp.penix.org Current Project: http://dp.penix.org/cl.html Public Key available here: http://dp.penix.org/dp.txt ============================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message