Re: dazukofs and /dev/dazukofs.ign

Lino Sanfilippo <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:58:01 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.dazuko.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Frantisek Hrbata schrieb:
>
>
> Ok, to be more accurate it is possible to avoid using "trusted"
> framework even if the scanning is done in a different process. You just
> need to make sure that the scanning process is started and registered to
> the process accepting kernel events before it actually starts to
> handle kernel events. On the other hand all file accesses from
> the scanning process will go through process accepting kernel requests.
> This leads to more context switches.
>
> -FH
>
>   



Thats right, but the question is how much is the performance
gain and if it justifies the additional code complexity. I think the most
file accesses will be done by untrusted processes and those
accesses will have to be reported to userspace anyway.

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