SELinux and ReiserFS
James Morris
jmorris at redhat.com
Mon Apr 5 19:22:24 UTC 2004
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Pete Chown wrote:
> James Morris wrote:
>
> > Reiserfs does not support file labeling, although there is a patch in the
> > suse kernel for it (we would only want to apply something that is
> > upstreamable though).
>
> I hope this patch will make it into FC2.
It won't unless Hans accepts the patch upstream.
> I have a lot of machines that are running on reiserfs, and can't easily
> be switched. This is for the obvious reason that reorganising the
> filesystems is time consuming. More importantly, though, there is an
> application which was developed specifically with reiserfs in mind, and
> creates huge numbers of small files. It would be difficult to run this
> under ext3.
You can probably solve this with a context mount, as you won't need
reiserfs for the entire box.
- James
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