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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:14:34 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: latest -current upgrade and CFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970429191206.13137B-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704291540.LAA02695@whizzo.transsys.com>

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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:

> 
> CFS is the crypto filesystem that Matt Blaze did.  Essentially, you
> talk to it via NFS and it decrypts/encrypts files on the fly which are
> stored elsewhere in the UNIX filesystem.
> 
> I just upgraded my system running an older -current to the version
> checkout as of last night.  My cfsd stopped working; it appears the
> the NFSv3 default is the cause of this problem, and the
> "auto-fallback" to NFSv2 mechansim doesn't work with cfs.  I had to
> add the '-2' option to the mount command to get things working; I
> recompiled cfsd for good measure too.

I will look into it soon.  Where can I get a copy of CFS?

> Note that this still requires the one-line fix to correctly parse
> mount options with parameters, like the 'port=3049', in the file
> /usr/src/sbin/mount/getmntopts.c.  I submitted a PR on this on quite a
> while ago:

Can you remember the PR number?  The fix looks good, so I will probably
commit it tomorrow.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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