Re: Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3

From: yang . y . yi
Date: Fri Mar 24 2006 - 09:21:52 EST


On 3/24/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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
Hmm, Why?
>
> > 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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