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Author: Rob Wultsch
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Subject: Need help! Calling all Linux experts here.
For the sake of argument could you remove the portion of the resier code
in you kernel that adds to the mount count?

Ernest Baca wrote:

> nolog only affects journal entries and not the mount count. For some
> reason reiser demands to write that mount count to the drive. Now I
> know that there are other ways of attacking this like imaging a drive or
> using a Windows piece of software which doesn't help when you need to do
> the work in real-time.
>
> As far as evidence. It is very important that the state of the drive
> does not change. It's like the OJ Simpson bloody glove. The
> prosecution has to show that the glove has remained in the same state as
> when the police seized it. Droping the glove in a puddle of mud two
> days later would invalidate that evidence because it had changed even
> though you can explain what happened. I hope this clears up my dilema.
>
> I am pretty sure that the reiser fs will need to be hacked. Any takers
> at the challenge?
>
> Ernie Baca
>
> www.linux-forensics.com
>



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