Re: ext4 features

Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-04T14:48:45Z

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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:04:54 PDT, Bruce Ferrell said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> > There's other issues as well. Why do people run 'tripwire' on boxes that
> > have RAID on them?
>
> Because they're looking for malicous changes

Close, but no cigar.

I've had tripwire detect *accidental* changes as well (including borked
patchsets that replaced unrelated files). The reason they run tripwire
as well as RAID is to detect changes that are visible only with the assistance
of information from the filesystem.

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