From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Timothy R. Chavez" <tinytim@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mounir Bsaibes <mbsaibes@us.ibm.com>,
Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>, Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
Klaus Weidner <klaus@atsec.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Daniel H Jones <danjones@us.ibm.com>,
Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>,
Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:50:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120719001.8058.162.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1120718414.3198.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:40 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> why is this? It would be a very logical thing to store this stuff inside
> the inode. It sounds like a bad design to keep per inode data out of the
> inode. (if you're concerned about taking a lot of space, put a pointer
> to a kmalloc()'d piece of memory into the inode instead). A hash is
> just, well, odd for this.
There are _very_ few of these; it's very dubious whether it'd be worth
bloating the inode for them. The use of I_AUDIT also serves to pin the
inode in icache, and we'd need something like that even if we _weren't_
using it as a marker for the hash table.
--
dwmw2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-07 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-06 16:54 [PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-06 17:17 ` Greg KH
2005-07-06 20:23 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-06 23:50 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 1:33 ` Steve Grubb
2005-07-07 18:15 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 18:49 ` Steve Grubb
2005-07-07 19:04 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 19:48 ` Steve Grubb
2005-07-07 21:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-07 22:08 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-07 22:51 ` serue
2005-07-08 5:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-08 5:48 ` James Morris
2005-07-08 17:48 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 16:26 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-07 18:10 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 18:16 ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-07 18:18 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 19:49 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-08 17:46 ` Greg KH
2005-07-08 19:48 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-10 18:59 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <OF993CB74B.E135A576-ON8725703B.00568CD6-0525703B.005814C3@us.ibm.com>
2005-07-11 17:13 ` Greg KH
2005-07-09 1:10 ` Chris Wright
2005-07-09 2:10 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-07 6:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-07 6:50 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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