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SubjectRe: [malware-list] TALPA - a threat model? well sorta.
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On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 15:17 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> >
> > is i_version an on disk think? didn't realize that and just assumed it
> > was in in core thing. I wouldn't have an issue sending i_version to the
> > userspace scanner for them to use as they like.
> >
>
> It's on-disk for some filesystems, in order to support NFsv4 advanced
> caching semantics (which means i_version has to survive a reboot,
> which means it has to be on disk). It is *not* on disk for ext3,
> although it is for ext4.

Is there some pragmatic way in kernel to know if the inode I have
corresponds to a persistent or in core only inode? I'll poke around
myself and look.

-Eris



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