selinux on JFS/ReiserFS

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Dec 11 03:07:58 UTC 2004


On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:05:09AM +0000, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:

 > I understand that SELinux is not supported by JFS and ReiserFS. I was 
 > wondering if this is because these filesystems just can't handle it, 
 > fedora's kernel is missing some patches that provide this functionality, 
 >  or the support is actually there but it doesn't work properly/nobody 
 > trusts it?

The necessary attribute support is missing from these filesystems.
There is some work happening upstream on reiserfs at least, so a
future version of the Fedora kernel would inherit those changes.

Usual caveats about reiserfs being unsupported apply.

		Dave




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