AW: Re: ext3 Filessyten in FC5-Test incompatible with other FC or RHEL versions

[John Reiser]

Stephen Smalley wrote:

> On the RH9 side, you are likely running into the old xattr-on-symlinks
> problem in older 2.4 kernels; the fix for that problem was backported to
> a FC1 kernel update long ago, IIRC, but naturally not to RH9.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152827
contains a pointer to the patch which can be applied to
kernel-2.4.20-37.9.legacy with only small offsets.
I did so, and the rebuilt kernel works.  The same patch also
applies to RedHat 8.2, and the resulting kernel works, too.

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