Questions tagged [fanotify]
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fanotify for mandatory access control
Seeing as fapolicyd uses fanotify to prevent the execution of programs, is it possible to use fanotify to for security? Like, a program can be checked which file it's accessing and then deny if it ...
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monitoring millions of files in linux with fanotify
I have a rather unique setup:
Proxmox setup with 2x fileservers (Debian 12), running DRBD for redundancy, XFS as the main data filesystem and then an NFS share set up for our 6 node cluster to access. ...
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Accessing NFS export locally: data consistency?
System I know has /etc/exports (redacted address range; NFSv4, Linux 5.8.3):
/usr/users 192.168.68.0/255.255.255.128(rw,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)
which is mounted on client machines (to ...
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Can fanotify modify files before access by other applications?
According to this, fanotify has “the possibility to read or modify files before access by other applications”. However, I can't find any example showing how this can be done. From what I understand, ...
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What are the costs of increasing `/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches` value?
In order to watch my home directory and all subdirectories recursively for 60 seconds:
$ inotifywatch -v -r -t 60 /path
You may get Failed to watch /path; upper limit on inotify watches reached! ...
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