Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:25:11 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 22:14 +0800, yang.y.yi@gmail.com wrote: > On 3/24/06, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> > > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:59:01 +0100 > > > > > then make the syslog part optional.. if it's not already! > > > > Regardless I still think the filesystem events connector is a useful > > facility. > > > > Audit just has way too much crap in it, and it's so much nicer to have > > tiny modules that are optimized for specific areas of activity over > > something like audit that tries to do everything. > > > the filesystem events connector is small and has low overhead, it only > focuses on > activities in the filesystem
... so much that it's not useful for antivirus at least. And your claim that audit has big overhead.. can you substantiate that? I mean, this code has big overhead too in principle, the biggest bottleneck is the sending-to-userspace, and that's the same in both.
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