Re: [PATCH 2/3] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Fri Oct 31 2008 - 17:03:24 EST


On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 15:35 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > Is this even useful for filesystems like proc or sysfs? Should we bloat
> > those inodes for a feature which might not possibly apply there?
>
> Currently, we're not measuring proc or sysfs files.

So, one of the points is that this "bloats" 'struct inode' for at least
these two filesystems. It has no use there, so it does not help much to
stick it in a common structure that those use.

-- Dave

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