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From: Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <klausk@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify instead of inotify
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:25:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245165908.4771.2.camel@klausk.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090612203159.12332.42771.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com>

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:31 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> Audit currently uses inotify to pin inodes in core and to detect when
> watched inodes are deleted or unmounted.  This patch uses fsnotify instead
> of inotify.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

Sorry for being lazy and not googling around, but what changes between
inotify and fsnotify, specially in terms of filesystem auditing? Is
there any performance/features/usability changes?

Thanks,

 -Klaus

-- 
Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <klausk@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Linux Security Development, IBM Linux Technology Center

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-16 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 20:31 [PATCH 1/7] audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify instead of inotify Eric Paris
2009-06-12 20:32 ` [PATCH 2/7] audit: redo audit watch locking and refcnt in light of fsnotify Eric Paris
2009-06-12 20:32 ` [PATCH 3/7] audit: do not get and put just to free a watch Eric Paris
2009-06-12 20:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] fsnotify: duplicate fsnotify_mark_entry data between 2 marks Eric Paris
2009-06-12 20:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] fsnotify: allow addition of duplicate fsnotify marks Eric Paris
2009-06-12 20:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] audit: reimplement audit_trees using fsnotify rather than inotify Eric Paris
2009-06-12 20:32 ` [PATCH 7/7] audit: move audit to a subdirectory Eric Paris
2009-06-16 15:25 ` Klaus Heinrich Kiwi [this message]
2009-06-16 15:43   ` [PATCH 1/7] audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify instead of inotify Eric Paris
2009-06-16 16:09     ` Klaus Heinrich Kiwi
2009-06-19 21:03       ` Eric Paris

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