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Re: are there many active users of cfs still here?
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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr>
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Subject: Re: are there many active users of cfs still here?
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According to Brian Edmonds:
> Ollivier. Is this code still being actively developed and stored
> somewhere I couldn't find in my web searches? I noticed a project from
Stored yes. You can find it by looking for "cfs" in FTPsearch. Developped,
well, I guess not really. It has been in beta2 for almost 3 years apparently.
> Italy to do a crypto fs that appeared to be pretty well developed, but
> it was 2.0 kernel based, rather than the more flexible (though slower)
> user space approach that CFS uses.
And Linux specific (like far too many free software projects these days).
> files a couple variables were generated without (or later with, I'm not
> conversant with rpcgen) leading underscores that I added in manually.
This is due to non standard rpcgen in some Linux versions AFAIK.
> Also the random number generating module would never exit for me, so I
> hacked it out and replaced it with reads from /dev/urandom.
Have you looked at why it loops ? Could you post here your patch for using
/dev/urandom ? The various *BSD have it too so I'm interested.
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