Re: [DotGNU]SEE-IFS

[Open Source]

Couple of questions

1 Speed of linking to different clusters 
2 reliability of IO writes/reads



--- Barry Fitzgerald <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello, all...
> 
> I've been tossing around an idea in my head and I
> want to bring this one
> up for discussion:
> 
> SEE-IFS.
> 
> First of all, I think we need to look at the
> function of SEE and perhaps
> look towards simplifying it so that much of the
> labor that SEE seeks to do
> is done in any shared libs or API's that we
> implement.  This comes from
> IRC conversations and strategy sessions that have
> occurred.  This
> streamlines SEE and leaves it up for providing an
> environment using
> existing technology to further itself (more on this
> later :) )...
> 
> However, looking at SEE's primary function
> (Supplying a Secure Execution
> Environment) and listening to talk of making SEE
> portable and create
> jailed shells, I've come up with the following:
> 
> SEE Isolated File System.
> 
> This is essentially a jailed shell which functions
> to provide a common
> runtime environment, completely isolated by the
> interface.
> 
> The goal would be to provide a minimal internal file
> structure that is
> mounted by SEE and contains a standard
> Unix|GNU/Linux directory structure.
> Placing this inside the realm of SEE control does a
> number of things:
> 
> 1) Provides a common file structure to reference in
> programs.
> 
> 2) Creates a jailed file system where potentially
> harmful code may still
> access libraries, but not affect external file
> systems.
> 
> 3) Creates the potential possibility of harnessing
> alternate file system
> security mechanisms from within a system that
> doesn't normally support it
> (imagine, if you will, a loopfile interface with a
> minimal SEE-IFS
> formatted as reiserfs on a Microsoft Windows fat32
> partition, but still
> capable of utilizing Unix style file security
> parameters).
> 
> All of this creates a single portable infrastructure
> where all program
> development could be unified.
> 
> All comments are welcome. :)  Let me know if
> clarification is needed.
> 
>       -Barry
> 
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