jim burns | 29 Sep 2008 00:22

Re: DazukoFS 3.0.0-rc1 posted - nullfs problems on openSuSE 11.0

On Wed September 24 2008 5:02:55 pm John Ogness wrote:
> I am very happy (and excited) to announce that DazukoFS 3.0.0-rc1 has
> been posted. I have spent the past month working on a complete rewrite
> of the file access logic as well as the userspace interface. Many of
> the ideas for the rewrite were inspired from the various discussions
> that took place on the malware-list.
>
> I will be writing an article for the Dazuko website that will go into
> details about the changes (what they are and why they were made) and
> discuss some very interesting benchmarks that were taken. But until I
> find time for the article, I wanted to post a very brief set of
> answers about DazukoFS.
>
>
> 1. Is DazukoFS compatible with Dazuko?
>
> No. DazukoFS uses different devices and a new device protocol. The way
> that DazukoFS interacts with userspace applications is also
> different. (The userspace application receives a read-only, open file
> descriptor to the file being accessed, rather than a filename.)

1) Do you know if avira will come out with an antivir that works with 
dazukofs?

2) SuSE has a dazuko .src.rpm based on redirfs-0.2 and dazuko 2.3.4.4 
(presumably 2.3.5-pre1, to support redirfs), hence it's a little out of date, 
plus building it against the current 2.6.25.16 kernel works, but the modules 
don't load, with unknown symbol errors. The .src.rpm was originally designed 
against 2.6.25.5.

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John Ogness | 19 Oct 2008 22:11

Re: DazukoFS 3.0.0-rc1 posted - nullfs problems on openSuSE 11.0

On 2008-09-29, jim burns <jim_burn <at> bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 1) Do you know if avira will come out with an antivir that works
>    with dazukofs?

I posted my thoughts on this question as a response to another thread:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dazuko-devel/2008-10/msg00003.html

> 2) SuSE has a dazuko .src.rpm based on redirfs-0.2 and dazuko
>    2.3.4.4 (presumably 2.3.5-pre1, to support redirfs), hence it's a
>    little out of date, plus building it against the current
>    2.6.25.16 kernel works, but the modules don't load, with unknown
>    symbol errors. The .src.rpm was originally designed against
>    2.6.25.5.

SuSE is interested in making sure that Dazuko is available on their
distribution. As far as I know, they are interested in pursuing the
redirfs/dazuko direction to maintain support for Dazuko. If you are
interested in using the SuSE kernel, then I recommend also using the
Dazuko package provided by SuSE.

> 3) Building the tarballs for dazuko 2.3.6-pre2 and redirfs-0.3
>    works, and the modules load, but antivir complains
>    "antivir[29092]: Error: Unable to setup Dazuko parameters" - I
>    get the feeling it can't talk to /dev/dazuko, which has major
>    250.

I do not know why antivir would be having a problem. If the module
loads (and the example program works), then antivir should be
happy. The Dazuko interface was not changed in 2.3.6-pre2. I recommend
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