>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Linus> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Kyle sent a very useful patch to simply disable the ima tracking unless >> you enable it on the command line. Linus> And exactly how does that invalidate _any_ of the patches in Linus> the IMA series in question? All of them are basically still Linus> equally valid. Well, if we're going to keep IMA as an option, then this cleanup is certainly worthwhile. And keeping it's impact down as much as possible is even better. Linus> And the "four bytes in 'struct inode' is a total no-no" crowd Linus> clearly haven't looked at struct inode. As mentioned, we've got Linus> things like quota stuff there too. Quota is arguably much more useful than IMA, and to a much larger audience. There's a reason it's in there. As a SysAdmin, one of my major gripes is how hard it is to manage disk space usage by my users and track it in useful ways. Quotas allow me to do a quicker, more targeted response when disk space fills up and I need to find the biggest users. Would I like better quota reporting? Sure! Do I want more overhead, not so much. It's a balancing act. Linus> And quite frankly, it sounds like the right thing to do for Linus> Fedora &co is to simply _disable_ CONFIG_IMA. If there is no Linus> support for it on a distro level, then you shouldn't enable it. So the Kconfig should have 'default N' for IMA then? John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
