Reiserfs question

[Russell Coker]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:53, Dan Hollis <goemon at anime.net> wrote:
> 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

I think that you are trying to mislead people.  See the following URL from the 
same thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=103542341128072&w=2

In response to a question about when ReiserFS will support XATTR Hans says 
that Reiser4 will do it.

As far as I am aware the ReiserFS XATTR code was added to the 2.6.x tree in 
spite of objections from Hans.

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

We all know that.

> > 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.

If XATTR support had been in ReiserFS with support from Namesys since 2002 
then SE Linux support would be there.

Incidentally the URL you cite contains an explanation of why SE Linux doesn't 
support persistent labels on ReiserFS.  It's because internally XATTRs are 
treated as files to preserve the metadata format.  If Hans had supported 
XATTRs then probably the metadata format would have a minor revision for them 
and this would never have been a problem.

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