SELinux and ReiserFS

[James Morris]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 nate at mountaintimes.com wrote:

> 
> 
> I just had the idea to install FC2 Test 2 with the Reiser file system. 
> 
> Boot off CD, run "linux reiserfs", format, install everything looks good, but on
> boot there's nothing but AVC errors about /sbin/init.
> 
> I am suspecting that the Reiser FS problems with SELinux aren't fixed, and this
> is an impossible combination.
> 
> Am I wrong? Is there a way to install FC2 without issues on a Reiser file
> system, if not the option to should be removed and some documentation should be
> referenced.

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).


- James
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James Morris
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