Re: 2.3.5-pre1 posted

On 2008-02-23, Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> wrote:
> When clamav is running, the content of the files monitored by dazuko
> is corrupt.

From your previous post, I am assuming you are using RedirFS. As I was
developing the RedirFS filter code, I also experienced such "strange"
effects. I got the impression that it was due to problems with
RedirFS. You may want to try the following:

1. Load RedirFS and Dazuko.

2. Start the Dazuko example program with "./example <some-path>".

3. Stop the example program.

- At this point, the path <some-path> is still registered with
  RedirFS, but Dazuko is no longer active because no registered
  processes are running. This means that only RedirFS is now
  monitoring <some-path>.

4. Manually investigate files within <some-path> to see if their
   contents are corrupt. If yes, then this is a RedirFS issue and must
   be fixed within RedirFS.

Using the above steps, I was able to reproduce strange behavior (in
step 4). As posted in large red letters on the RedirFS website:

        ALL THE FOLLOWING PACKAGES ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND INTENDED FOR
        TESTING. PLEASE USE THEM ONLY ON SYSTEMS WHERE KERNEL CRASH OR
        FILE SYSTEM DAMAGE CAN NOT CAUSE ANY HARM.

So I think it is "normal" that some strange side effects have not been
worked out. Dazuko's support for RedirFS was not meant as a statement
that RedirFS is production-ready. Only the RedirFS project can make
that statement.

The RedirFS project may already be aware of some issues with the 0.2
version.

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer