reiser4 +selinux

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:28 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 12/29/05, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know if reiser4 has the XATTRs added to handle selinux now?
> 
> Reiser4 has the right structures to store things like XATTRs without
> stinking (unlike reiser3). Unfortunately, Resier4's developers were
> told that their preferred files-as-directories interface for extended
> attributes would be included in the mainline kernel around the time
> hell freezes over. This has resulted in the code being pulled, and
> extended attribute support in reiser4 has been left to bit rot.
> 
> Attention on bringing it back will be given once reiser4 makes it into
> the mainline kernel... which is a sane ordering of priorities.
> 
> Frankly, somethinglike selinux attrs on tmpfs would be a lot more important..

SELinux attributes on tmpfs have been around for some time.  They were
needed for udev with a tmpfs /dev.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency