Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:26:18 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Entombing for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990416162441.5480H-100000@kalypso.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <199904161955.MAA59781@apollo.backplane.com>
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For that matter, does it offer anything that a set of intelligent scripts/wrappers for common destructive commands wouldn't give you? --K.S. On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : I've been thinking about this enombing thing... well, I hate to say it, : but crowbaring into libc is *not* the right way to do it. It's : just too intrusive. The right way to do it would be to write a device : driver similar to NULLFS which handles backing up the files, thus giving : the sysad the option to use such a device to mount-through those partitions : that the sysad wants to keep checkpointed. Also, putting such intrusive : code into libc would be fairly dangreous from a security point of view : even if it is turned off. : : -Matt : Matthew Dillon : <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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