[pve-devel] hosts.fw and security groups

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 19.02.2014 um 19:04 schrieb Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com>:

>>> Yes. (do we need to compute all chains ? or only group chains and
>>> update them if checksum change ?)
>> Why not use mtime of the file?
> 
> time resolution is 1 second, so that whay you can miss changes.

That's not correct Linux stores them on highres. With time::highres in perl you can floating point m c time values.

> 
> But reading the file and compute a digest is also easy.
> 
> Besides, we can also tell pmxfs to track versions. That for, we
> need to register the file name in pve-cluster/data/src/status.c (memdb_change_array).
> ...