Subject: Re: seeking advice on encrypting file systems
To: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Sascha Retzki <lantis@linux.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/05/2004 05:44:11
>--- VaX#n8 <vax@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>Hi, here's a quick review of the state of the art in encrypted file systems:
> [...]
>3) TCFS - the latest of the three.  Also a stackable file system layer.
>I have been unable to contact the authors as the email address on the web
>page bounces.  Unfortunately, it is distributed as files you untar over
>/usr/src, and it is relative to some NetBSD version circa 2000-04-26 which
>is well before anything on the NetBSD FTP site, so I cannot make diffs.
>Some of the changes are obviously in conflict with later NetBSDs.
> [...]
>I am thinking of trying TCFS.  I am currently on a moderately old
>NetBSD and unsure whether I should integrate it into my older
>NetBSD, later upgrade and repeat the process using what I learned the first
>time, or update to 1.6.1 (or -current) first and integrate afterwards.

Hi. 
i just want to say: I agree with Greg: its selfish ;)).
If you integrate it into the old one and then port it to current or 1.6.1, you can look for backward compatibility, see howto make it portable. 
Just a thought

greetings

Sascha Retzki

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