mtree vs tripwire

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:42:15 -0600, D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd at visi.com> said:

> What sort of pitfalls should I be aware of?

mtree files don't scale very well, and to make proper use of them for
this purpose requires a great deal more thought.  Tripwire is a bit
more "pre-thunk", and uses a database instead of a flat file, which
speeds updates.  (With mtree you'd have to rescan the entire
filesystem.)

-GAWollman