JFS Filesystems?

[Nick Bargnesi]

Bah, "linux jfs selinux=0" works.  I had to change the kernel params
on these stations to root=/dev/sdf1 when it couldn't find the "/"
label, but that worked.  All eight drives are using JFS now.
-Nick



On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:49:00 -0500, Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:41, Nick Bargnesi wrote:
> >     I was however able to install FC3 on these machines using a root
> > partition of ext3 and jfs partitions not directly related to the FC3
> > directory structure, i.e., /opt, and some backup mount points.  I've
> > read about trying "linux jfs selinux=0" as jfs won't mingle with
> > selinux, which I haven't done yet.  Curious to see if anyone else is
> > using non-ext filesystems and experienced/gotten past this.  Or to
> > smack me upside the head and say selinux=0 should do it...
> 
> IBM just posted a JFS patch this morning to the selinux mailing list
> that they said allows them to use SELinux with JFS on FC3.  They said
> that they are submitting it upstream soon, so hopefully SELinux and JFS
> will play nicely with each other in the not-so-distant future.  Also
> requires a small patch to the policy configuration to tell SELinux that
> it should try using xattrs on jfs for file contexts.
> 
> --
> Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
> National Security Agency
> 
> 


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