Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 15:40:36 EST


Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just why are you doing all this? Why do we need a back-end that requires
> all this extra client-side security infrastructure in order to work?

Well, both Christoph and Al are of the opinion that I should be using
vfs_mkdir() and co rather than bypassing the security and calling inode ops
directly.

Also I should be setting security labels on the files I create.

> IOW: What is wrong with the existing CacheFS?

Well, you did require it to be reviewed by Christoph...

David
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