"Stateless Linux" project

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Fri Oct 1 14:57:47 UTC 2004


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:07, Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> Do you mean this?
> Self-certifying File System http://www.fs.net/sfswww/

The web site is down at the moment.

>From memory it was implemented locally as a NFS server.  So the kernel thought 
of it as local NFS and the NFS server translated the requests to SFS.

The problem with this is that NFS doesn't support XATTRs and therefore doesn't 
provide full functionality on SE Linux.  No matter how we use SFS we still 
need XATTRs for SE Linux support, and I guess it doesn't have them yet.

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