Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2803 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:52 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:

> Files in a samba share can be scanned _by samba_ or by an agent samba 
> invokes, as they are being written or read _via samba_.
> Any other files and subsystems can have a similar targeted scanning module, 
> such as postfix, etc..
>
> You are right that software should do a better job of "just working", but you 
> should probably not try to meddle in basic system design.
> Instead, openSUSE, if it's going to declare that dazuko is not a proper 
> design and will not be supported, should probably just remove all rpm's and 
> dpendancies rather than have broken ones in the repo's. And place an 
> explanation in the release notes.
>
> Let MS do on-access scanning. The fact that it needs to is just part of why 
> that os sucks. We do not need to emulate it.

Completely true, however, there is a minute problem.
It does not scale.

Nice for SOHO-solutions, but forget about it when you're over  50 users.
Scanning does takes place but drains all the cpu and all other users who
do something (like ls) on a smb/cifs mounted directory just HANG!

On access scanning (once, after download completes and before it is
moved to the users home-dir) is the best solution.
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