Reiserfs question

Dan Hollis goemon at anime.net
Fri Oct 29 17:53:10 UTC 2004


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Russell Coker wrote:
> New features can't wait for everyone to use new file systems.  Hans has 
> decided not to support XATTRs

Wrong, reiserfs XATTRs were added in 2002.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=103765962910834&w=2

If you will check the config options for 2.6.8.1 youll see
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR ...

> and as a consequence of that people who want to use SE Linux will make 
> much less use of ReiserFS.  This also impacts the ability of Red Hat to 
> support ReiserFS.

If selinux cant run on reiserfs, its not because its missing XATTRs, 
because theyre not missing.

-Dan




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