ReiserFS 3.6

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Jan 18 00:37:37 UTC 2006


Stephen Smalley wrote:
> 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.
> 


Thanks for the clarification. xfs might be interesting to try on an 
experimental, not critical information drive.

Jim

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