* Darryl Okahata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010816 14:49] wrote:
> Konstantin Chuguev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Look at /usr/ports/security/cfs. It's a useland crypto-filesystem that
> > > runs over NFS.
> >
> > I'd say, it's a daemon pretending to be an NFS server. It's running locally
> > on port other than NFS.
> >
> > Very nice implementation, I use it a lot. A small problem with it is that
> > it seems to support 7-bit file names only.
>
> A bigger problem is that doing anything with a file uses up 1-2KB
> PER FILE. If you want to see cfsd grow *really big*, do a "find ." of
> any large cfs-controlled hierarchy with lots of files. I'd really like
> to put my MH mail messages under cfs, but I've got too many files (I
> can't afford having a 200+MB cfsd).
>
> The memory is not freed until you unmount (and then, the memory is
> only free'd for use by other cfs mounts -- the process size does not, of
> course, shrink).
This is what swap is for. :)
If cfsd doesn't touch all that now unused memory it'll simply be
paged out and probably only paged in occasionally.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?
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