ReiserFS 3.6

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 06:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >
> > Does ReiserFS handle SELinux content now? I seem to recall that a 
> > filesystem other than ext2 / ext3 was capable of accomidating SELinux 
> > content. Is the progress less than expected by this date?
> 
> Yes. It does. Along with XFS too I believe.

Actually, I'm afraid that there was breakage in SELinux support for xfs
and reiserfs starting with 2.6.14 as a side effect of the introduction
of support for atomic security labeling for new files (ensuring that
file security labels are applied in the same transaction as the file
creation, so that the file does not exist temporarily in an unlabeled
state).  A workaround for xfs has recently been upstreamed for 2.6.16
(so xfs was broken in 2.6.14 and 2.6.15).  Not clear that anyone will
fix reiserfs anytime soon; SELinux support has never been a priority of
the reiserfs maintainers (upstream or SuSE); it only started working
with SELinux in 2.6.12 anyway.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency