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Re: other users of CFS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre Abbat)
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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
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Subject: Re: other users of CFS?
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On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:30, John Reardon wrote:
> Intro: I am new to the list. I am an engineer who has to investigate
> moving our file archive to live in encrypted form on the disk. Our
> product is a bunch of software that we ship on a custom Solaris box
> running OS version 2.8.
>
> I got CFS working locally - it is pretty nice. I also was going to
> investigate Cryptfs
> (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/cryptfs/index.html) for 2
> improvements (speed and the concept of the 'session id'). I was
> interested in any stories, anecdotes, etc. of experiences with these 2
> different systems. Since we control the system, I am not put off by
> the fact that cryptfs is a kernel module.
>
> I get the impression that CFS might be in more general use and that
> Cryptfs might be more of a PhD project that isn't in 'real use' as
> much. I could be totally wrong about this. I was wondering what
> others' think.
I have CFS installed on two computers. I use it on one; NFS got hosed on the
other and CFS no longer works. I get the impression it's a dead project and
would like to see something new.
phma
