ReiserFS 3.6

[Justin Conover]

On 1/16/06, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/16/06, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
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> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > goemon at anime.net wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> goemon at anime.net wrote:
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> > >>>> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Tom wrote:
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> > >>>>>   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
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> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > 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. 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
> >
> > --
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> XFS has also been supported.
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> 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
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