Re: [Tux3] Tux3 report: A Golden Copy

Jamie Lokier
2009-01-04T03:17:52Z

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.

-- Jamie