formatting your hard drive for testing

[Stephen Smalley]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:38 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 06:33 -0400, Robin Green wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ext3 is the only officially supported filesystem in fedora, but in 
> > my experience reiserfs is more dependable (let's not start a flamewar 
> > please! ;)
> 
> Does reiserfs work with SELinux yet? I know there were some patches but
> I don't know if they went anywhere.
> 
> My personal experience is that neither fail unless there is a hard drive
> problem. But I understand reiserfs and selinux don't play nice.

Patches are in 2.6.12-rc3 and thus included in the FC4/devel kernel that
should allow using reiserfs and SELinux together.  But I haven't tried
it myself.  You would also need to modify the policy configuration and
fixfiles to specify that SELinux should use xattrs on reiserfs; we are
waiting on 2.6.12 to make that change upstream.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency