SELinux and ReiserFS

[James Morris]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Pete Chown wrote:

> James Morris wrote:
> 
> > Reiserfs does not support file labeling, although there is a patch in the
> > suse kernel for it (we would only want to apply something that is
> > upstreamable though).
> 
> I hope this patch will make it into FC2.

It won't unless Hans accepts the patch upstream.

> I have a lot of machines that are running on reiserfs, and can't easily
> be switched.  This is for the obvious reason that reorganising the
> filesystems is time consuming.  More importantly, though, there is an
> application which was developed specifically with reiserfs in mind, and
> creates huge numbers of small files.  It would be difficult to run this
> under ext3.

You can probably solve this with a context mount, as you won't need 
reiserfs for the entire box.


- James
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James Morris
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