Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jan 2009 03:17:33 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [Tux3] Tux3 report: A Golden Copy |
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Justin P. Mattock wrote: > Thats some crazy stuff!! and just think most of it is > simply magnets.(but more complicated than that) > >One feature we are kicking around to make life easier for SELinux: > >sometimes the filesystem can run while SELinux is not running, and > >security labels will be wrong when SELinux re-enters the picture. We > >have in mind to provide a persistent log of filesystem events that the > >security system can attach to on startup and find out what went on in > >its absence. > > > > > That sounds nice: > > find out what went on in > its absence.
That sounds like a feature Windows had for many years now, (since Windows 2000?). It complements the Windows equivlant of dnotify/inotify/fsnotify.
It's used for file indexing too (think equivalent to Spotlight, Beagle, etc.), and other types of security scanning (think equivalent to Tripwire).
I wonder why the people writing file indexing tools for Linux never made a fuss about this. Inotify is ok for indexing, but means quite a few minutes of intensive disk activity after each boot to rescan /home.
-- Jamie
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