Re: [2.6.16 PATCH] Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3

[Arjan van de Ven]

> It is also never redundant functionality of audit subsystem, if enable 
> audit option, audit subsystem will audit all the syscalls, so it adds 
> big overhead for the whole system, 

this is not true

> but Filesystem Event Connector just
>  concerns those operations related to the filesystem, so it has little
>  overhead, moreover, audit subsystem is a complicated function block, 
> it not only sends audit results to netlink interface, but also send 
> them to klog or syslog, so it will add big overhead. you can look File
>  Event Connector as subset of audit subsystem, but File Event Connector
>  is a very very lightweight subsystem.

then make the syslog part optional.. if it's not already!


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