ReiserFS 3.6

[Jim Cornette]

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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