Re: Most simple filesystem with content checksums?

["Malcolm Herbert" <netbsd.org%mjch.net@localhost>]

Ah, reminder to self to read the entire thread before responding, apologies for the noise all ... 

I would add that variants of mtree can be found on non-NetBSD systems also - I use it a lot on Linux but have also used it on Solaris and FreeBSD and in most cases the spec files are interchangeable

Regards,
Malcolm

On Sun, 25 Oct 2026, at 09:20, Martin Neitzel wrote:
>> I do it at the application level using a short Tcl script recording
>> MD5 hashes of the files.  It's a manual process.
>
> Perhaps a small reminder that we have mtree(8) in base:
>
> It can compile checksums and metadata (owner, permissons, ...) of
> a file hierarchy into compact summary, check a hierarchy against
> such a summary, and "repair" a hierachy in different ways.
>
> 						Martin

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