/tmp on tmpfs (was: Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-04-02))

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 02.04.12 21:30, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) wrote:

> > >  - it doesn't support user extended attrs; and not very old kernels
> > >   didn't support any xattrs at all, meaning things like SELinux
> > >   labels don't work
> > 
> > Huh? Why would you run a "very old kernel" on fedora?
> 
> It's not unknown that people use different kernels from the ones
> supplied.  I said "not very old", by which I meant >= 12 months old.

SELinux on tmpfs has been supported at least as long as we made devtmpfs
the default on Fedora, since that's more or less just a tmpfs like any
other when it comes to features.

Lennart

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