From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Vier Subject: Re: Can compression at filesystem level improve overall performance? Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:25:05 -0500 Message-ID: <20040329052505.GB19372@zero> References: <405B02ED.4010602@solidcode.net> <1079713790.9729.1.camel@redeeman.linux.dk> <16475.9613.375262.677576@laputa.namesys.com> <1079978427.4658.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> <405F46D8.1040607@namesys.com> <1080011016.4658.408.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4060189B.2000500@namesys.com> <1080145163.4658.1314.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: Tom Vier Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1080145163.4658.1314.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:19:23AM -0500, Scott Young wrote: > Additional metadata could identify the program and the user that made > that specific version of a file, and any malicious changes can be > selectively rolled back. An administrator may use the metadata to audit > the changes a file made to the filesystem, or a program could be run in > a jail where the changes it makes to the filesystem are only visible to > itself. Versioning opens up a plethora of possibilities for data > security. or you could just chattr +i, and avoid changes in the first place. 8) -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE