Re: [Tux3] Tux3 report: A Golden Copy

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>]

On Saturday 03 January 2009 19:17, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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.

Actually they did.  It was a poke from Jos van den Oever, the Strigi
guy, that got me thinking about it, the security aspect came up later.

Regards,

Daniel