./autorelabel

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Thu Jul 19 15:03:46 UTC 2012


Folks,

   I updated a CentOS system yesterday from 6.2 to 6.3. I saw it update
selinux-policy-targeted (I think it was) and several hours later, it
still hadn't gotten to the next package; looking, it appeared to be
running a restorecon. I killed it, and redid the update.

   For other reasons, it didn't reboot. I brought it up under the most
recent previous kernel, it did an fsck on a 2T drive... then it's been
running autorelabel for at least an hour and a half, and I have no idea
how much longer it will be. It's longer than fsck.

   This is a backup server, which uses hardlinks to save space.

   You may not consider this a bug, but it certainly makes selinux close
to unusable in anything resembling a working environment.

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