zfs vscan clamav

[nerozero]

Hello,

just started to work with ZFS. found "vscan" option in dataset which sounds quite promising.

is it possible to use clamav as a virus scanner for zfs? If yes could you please share some experience?

Thanks

 

[suntzu00]

vscan=off | on
The vscan property is currently not supported on FreeBSD.

 

[nerozero]

Its quite sad...
Is it planned to implement it?

 

[sko]

This property is a legacy option way back from Sun Solaris / OpenSolaris (yes, even before Oracle got its hands on it) and it only indicated that the vscan service should monitor this dataset - there is nothing else going on at the ZFS side.

You could basically re-implement that functionality by adding your own property e.g. scanme=off|on, then have a service check this property and fire clamav every time a file on that dataset is read or written.

 

[nerozero]

sko, Thanks!