On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:07, Landon Fuller wrote:
> Landon Fuller wrote:
> > One other issue worth raising -- The director can currently overwrite
> > any file on the FD, including the encryption keys or the FD
> > configuration file, thus exposing private data to the director.
>
> Something else I forgot to mention; the file daemon also ensures data
> integrity by signing each file. Currently, only file data is signed --
> permissions, ownership, et al are not.
>
> AFAIK, during a restore, the storage daemon will provide the stream data
> in the same order it was written by the file daemon. If that's true, the
> easiest way to add extra file attributes/streams to the signature is to
> checksum them as we send them to (and receive them from) the storage
> daemon.
>
> Kern, is it reasonable to assume that the Storage Daemon will always
> provide per-file stream data in the order it was written by the File
> Daemon? 

Yes, it is a strict requirement.

> If not, I'd guess the alternative is to cache the file 
> attributes on restore and checksum them in the standard order.
>
> Thanks,
> -landonf


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