Bug#609097: RFP: scannedonly -- scalable samba anti-virus module

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Falk Hackenberger
<debian@spam.huckley.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think the package is useful.
>
> you have to understand How does scannedonly work?
>
> Scannedonly comes in two parts: a samba vfs module (included in samba
> since samba-3.5.0) and (one or more) daemons. The daemon scans files. If
> a certain file is clean, a second file is created with prefix .scanned:.
> The samba module simply looks if such a .scanned: file exists, and is
> newer than the pertinent file. If this is the case, the file is shown to
> the user. If this is not the case, the file is not returned in any
> directory listing, and cannot be opened. The samba vfs module will also
> tell the daemon to scan this file.
>
> the vfs module we have in the samba package, but it is useless without
> the daemon.
> So we should package the scannedonly daemon and utils all is fine.

Ok but it will help the description to add more detail.

BTW and OT this behavior is racy, could be better to add an xattr with
the last scanning time to the file and compare it ?

Bastien

>
> Falk
>