Drawing lessons from fatal SELinux bug #1054350

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Fri Jan 24 18:19:48 UTC 2014


On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:41:13 -0800
Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> AIUI there is/was a long-term plan to integrate this as core
> functionality using btrfs snapshots - in fact that was one of the
> major attractions of the idea of switching to btrfs-by-default in the
> first place. I believe those involved didn't think the LVM-based
> implementation was clean/robust enough to use by default, but a
> btrfs-based implementation would be. Do correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't think snapshots are a partcularly good solution, unless there's
some way to only roll back the rpm/yum transaction without also rolling
back unrelated changes. 

kevin
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