On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:39:59AM -0700, Jeff Bonwick wrote:
> > Why not use the Solaris audit facility?
> 
> Several reasons:
> 
> (1) We want the history to follow the data, not the host.  If you
>     export the pool from one host and import it on another, we want
>     the command history to move with the pool.  That won't happen
>     if the history file is somewhere in /etc or /var.
> 
> (2) For correctness, we want the record of the command to be written
>     in the same transaction group as the action it causes.  That way
>     there's no ambiguity about whether a given command did or did not
>     complete before something bad happened.

OK, I that makes a lot of sense.  But you'd still want to audit, no?
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