SELinux and ReiserFS

[Russell Coker]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:14, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> > Currently mkfs.xfs in Fedora defaults to a 256 byte Inode (see below
> > bugzilla URL for the details).  This means that existing XFS file systems
> > will not be good candidates for being labelled with SE Linux contexts.  I
> > believe that we have never provided a method for install to an XFS root
> > fs, so most use of XFS in Fedora should be for /mail, /var/spool/news,
> > /var/cache/squid, etc. Using -o context for such file systems should
> > provide significant benefits for disk space use and performance.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120622
>
> at the install boot screen append xfs as an option i.e linux xfs  and you
> will be able to install xfs from the get go.

Even on the root fs?  I wasn't aware of this.

Is it possible to pass "-i size=512" to mkfs.xfs through the GUI or do you 
have to run mkfs.xfs from the command line to do so?

> I currently have two test 2 
> systems running xfs as the root file system  one system has a 80 gig drive
> and the other is 60 gig.  im willing to help test things

Well if you have 256 byte Inodes then your test results may make you unhappy.  
Lots of disk space used and no good way of reclaiming it.  But I would be 
interested to hear about your test results apart from issues of performance 
and wasted disk space...

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