Reiserfs question

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Thu Oct 28 12:48:10 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 07:48, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:42 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be an anaconda bug not to do this, ie. not automatically
> > disable SELinux (and warn about it) when reiserfs is used?
> 
> Well reiserfs is not supported, hence hidden behind using a special
> installer option for those unteachable souls that want reiserfs. I don't
> think Jeremy will put effort into anaconda making it work around
> deficiencies in unsupported file systems when he's got so much else to
> do ;-).

And it should no longer produce deadlock in FC3/final, as SELinux has
been adjusted to not even try using the reiserfs xattr handlers until
they are fixed.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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