zffanalyze is a tool for analyzing files in the forensic file format Zff.
Since such forensic dumps are usually created with privileged rights (mostly by reading out /dev/xxx-devices), such zff containers are often stored outside of their own /home in practice.
To be able to analyze such files, which can also be located somewhere else in the file system (using zffanalyze), read-only access to those is required. This should be fulfilled with an auto-connection for system-backup.
The project itself is open source, you can check for yourself that not a single io::Write operation is performed, only io::Read operations.
I therefore request system-backup auto-connection for the snap zffanalyze.
Hey @ph0llux,
I did a quick check of the code in https://github.com/ph0llux/zffanalyze and I did not find any reference to /var/lib/snapd/hostfs (which is the location where the entire host filesystem is mounted via system-backup). Is this correct?
I apologize if I am misunderstanding how zffanalyze works, I am just trying to see how the snap is trying to analyze zff files.
Hello @emitorino,
I’m the one who has to apologize here - I had assumed in the system-backup interface that I would get read access to files in hostfs - but had probably misunderstood that this has to be done via /var/lib/snapd/hostfs. I ask for your forgiveness, this is my first snap for which I request interface connection 
I extended my code accordingly and wrote a small patch that sets the prefix of the inputfiles to /var/lib/snapd/hostfs when building a snap (the patch is used in snapcraft.yaml from the snap folder. The code to concatenate the paths is in src/bin/lib/mod.rs or src/bin/lib/constants.rs).
I will think of a more elegant solution in the future, but this one works just fine for now. 
Thanks for your answer.
+1 from me for use of and auto-connect of system-backup for zffanalyze.
+1 from me too for auto-connect of the system-backup interface, given that this application only performs read operations, and this is required for usability.
2 votes for, 0 votes against, granting auto-connect of system-backup to zffanalyze. This is now live.
