Re: [Dazuko-help] It is dead?

[Frans de Boer]

On 10/13/2010 10:41 AM, John Ogness wrote:
> Note: This email is being cross-posted to dazuko-devel since it
>       contains relevant development information.
>
> On 2010-10-13, Frans de Boer <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
>> No progress, no resolution for the 2.6.35+ kernel....is there a
>> change it will spark back to life or am I missing something?
>>     
> The 2.6.36 kernel is about to be released. I don't plan on integrating
> the already publicly available DazukoFS patches into a new version
> until then. At that point I would also fix any new issues with 2.6.36.
>
> 2.6.36 is actually a very interesting kernel release because it will
> include (for the first time) the fanotify interface. Although the
> implementation is quite different, fanotify could be used as a
> replacement for DazukoFS. And since it is now mainline Linux, one must
> ask if DazukoFS should continue to exist.
>
> I plan on writing test applications using fanotify to demonstrate that
> fanotify can be a replacement for DazukoFS. If the applications indeed
> show this (which I assume they will), then I will officially orphan
> (or pass on maintenance of) DazukoFS (after fixing 2.6.36 issues).
>
> John Ogness
>
>   
I know that ClamAV in the 0.97 release plan to use Fanotify instead of
dazukoFS. When a product has made it main stream, then why try to
continue if dazukoFS already has offered itself for inclusion in the
main stream. As far as I know, it did not even made it into the staging
area.

Anyhow, thanks sofar for given us dazuko and dazukoFS in the past.

Regards, Frans.