ReiserFS 3.6
Jim Cornette
fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Jan 17 00:45:23 UTC 2006
Justin Conover wrote:
>
>
> On 1/16/06, *Justin Conover* <justin.conover at gmail.com
> <mailto:justin.conover at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 1/16/06, *Jim Cornette* < fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
> <mailto:fct-cornette at insight.rr.com>> wrote:
>
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> goemon at anime.net <mailto:goemon at anime.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> >
>> >> goemon at anime.net <mailto:goemon at anime.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Tom wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Can Fedora install, r/w to existing R_FS partitions?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, but you will need to disable selinux. selinux does not
> run well
>> >>> (or really, at all) on anything except ext3 at the moment.
>> >>> But I have had enough problems with selinux even on ext3
> that I
>> >>> usually install with selinux disabled anyway. Maybe by FC6
> all the
>> >>> selinux issues will be sorted out for production servers :)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hmm. Does that mean that hundreds of thousands of RHEL 4
> systems
>> >> running SELinux is just a flick out of my creative imagination?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > No it just means that I personally (and others) have issues
> with FC4
>> > selinux on production servers, and that redhat has sarcastic and
>> > snippy employees.
>> >
>> > i'm pretty sure i'm not imagining selinux issues:
>> >
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=selinux&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=selinux&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=selinux&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=selinux
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=selinux&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=selinux&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=selinux&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=selinux>
>> >
>>
>>
>> Production systems do not mean bug free. If so there are no
> production
>> systems at all. Just look at the number of bugs filed against
> any of the
>> major components like Kernel, Openoffice.org
> <http://Openoffice.org>. Evolution etc and you
>> would find that bug reports are not by itself a decisive
> factor. You
>> also include bugs in NEEDINFO which requires information from
> the bug
>> reporter. NEW bugs are unconfirmed ones. MODIFIED ones might
> require
>> confirmation from the reporter before being closed. There are
> invalid
>> bug reports and feature enhancements as well in there. Nobody
> claimed
>> the components are bug free.
>>
>
> Does ReiserFS handle SELinux content now? I seem to recall that a
> filesystem other than ext2 / ext3 was capable of accomidating
> SELinux
> content. Is the progress less than expected by this date?
>
> Regarding SELinux, it has problems, but the problems are usually
> dealt
> with quickly when information can be supplied to pinpoint where the
> adjustments that need to be made. I find SELinux still to be rather
> cryptic. It does however ease worries a bit that critical
> services and
> processes are protected better than possible on a system where
> SELinux
> is not used.
>
> Jim
>
> --
>
>
> XFS has also been supported.
>
>
> I should mention if your going to use xfs, you should use it on fs
> afterwards with ext3 on /boot and /
> Reason being is xfs with selinux should use inode size 512 instead of
> default 256
>
> mkfs.xfs -i size=512
>
Thanks! I'll probably create an xfs volume for non-critical content with
512 just to test the filesystem out. I have some content that the 512
requirement would not matter a great deal.
Jim
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