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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hello guys,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>It is a pleasure for me to see that you also
appreciate the architecture of the freebsd operating system.<br>
<br>
Yes Enrico, Tribunale di Lecce is the Italian Court of the City of Lecce.<br>
<br>
Zoran asks me what my goal is. Really difficult to explain in two words. I try.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>I apologize with coreboot community if the
question is not stricly pertinent to coreboot. It will be in a future email.<br>
<br>
<u>BACKGROUND.</u><br>
My goal is to make raw images of memory devices like USB sticks and SATA hard
drives. The images must be connected avoiding to modify the content of the
original devices, in particular the timestamps of the files contained in them,
which, as it's known, are filesystem dependent.<br>
<br>
If I'm not mistaken, when I connect a USB stick or a SATA hard disk to a
computer with a Freebsd operating system, the Freebsd recognizes the device at
physical level, it creates a node in the / dev directory, but does not bother
to understand what it is, that is, for him it is a raw device, so it does not
perform dangerous operations like autorun and automount.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN>It seems to me that in Unix this is the
meaning of a character device.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><br>
<b>If this is true</b>, the original device is protected and you can proceed to
cloning using the dd command.<br>
<br>
<u>QUESTIONS AND YOUR TIPS AND CORRECTIONS:</u><br>
<br>
1- What actually happens when you plug in to USB device (you can suggest me a
bibliograph to read)<br>
2 - Is there a Unix command that logs in real-time the whole flux, from the
physical plugging action of the device to the /dev node creation ?<br>
3 - Verify that the creation of the /dev node only implies that the device is
recognized as raw and the O.S. will not be able to access its memory (condition
of device write blocked).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>See you !!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Best Regards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Vincenzo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Da:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> coreboot
[mailto:coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org] <b>Per conto di </b>ron minnich<br>
<b>Inviato:</b> lunedì 4 dicembre 2017 16:52<br>
<b>A:</b> Zoran Stojsavljevic<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ivan Ivanov; ingegneriaforense@alice.it; coreboot<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> Re: [coreboot] freebsd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>if you watch netflix, you're using freebsd. It's a very
solid piece of software.<o:p></o:p></p>
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