In message <14912.44453.141012.975221@iller.crt.se>, Urban Boquist writes:
>>>>>> Steven M Bellovin writes:
>
>Steven> Let me point folks at http://www.crypto.com/papers/cfs.ps,

Well, I had mentioned it mostly for its discussion of how to do 
encryption...
>
>I have tried to use both TCFS and CFS and I can't get any of them to
>work reliably (on NetBSD-current).
>
>
>CFS: this is totally unusable in NetBSD-current due to broken
>NFS-over-loopback (see PR/8151). If you apply the patches to libc
>found in PR/11464 things get getter and CFS starts to be
>useful. Almost... Sometimes very strange things happen, like a
>directory turning into a file, io-errors when trying to close files
>etc. Doing a "cvs update" on top of CFS is an easy way to provoke the
>problems.

That said, I do want to use CFS with NetBSD.  But I can't even get it 
to compile on 1.5 (I'm using CFS 1.3.0).  And that's a problem for me, 
since I really need to encrypt certain directories.


		--Steve Bellovin