ReiserFS 3.6

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Jan 17 00:15:15 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> goemon at anime.net wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> goemon at anime.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Tom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   Can Fedora install, r/w to existing R_FS partitions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but you will need to disable selinux. selinux does not run well 
>>>> (or really, at all) on anything except ext3 at the moment.
>>>> But I have had enough problems with selinux even on ext3 that I 
>>>> usually install with selinux disabled anyway. Maybe by FC6 all the 
>>>> selinux issues will be sorted out for production servers :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm. Does that mean that hundreds of thousands of RHEL 4 systems 
>>> running SELinux is just a flick out of my creative imagination?
>>
>>
>>
>> No it just means that I personally (and others) have issues with FC4 
>> selinux on production servers, and that redhat has sarcastic and 
>> snippy employees.
>>
>> i'm pretty sure i'm not imagining selinux issues:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=selinux&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=selinux&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=selinux&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=selinux 
>>
> 
> 
> Production systems do not mean bug free. If so there are no production 
> systems at all. Just look at the number of bugs filed against any of the 
> major components like Kernel, Openoffice.org. Evolution etc and you 
> would find that bug reports are not by itself a decisive factor. You 
> also include bugs in NEEDINFO which requires information from the bug 
> reporter. NEW bugs are unconfirmed ones. MODIFIED ones might require 
> confirmation from the reporter before being closed.  There are invalid 
> bug reports and feature enhancements as well in there.  Nobody claimed 
> the components are bug free.
> 

Does ReiserFS handle SELinux content now? I seem to recall that a 
filesystem other than ext2 / ext3 was capable of accomidating SELinux 
content. Is the progress less than expected by this date?

Regarding SELinux, it has problems, but the problems are usually dealt 
with quickly when information can be supplied to pinpoint where the 
adjustments that need to be made. I find SELinux still to be rather 
cryptic. It does however ease worries a bit that critical services and 
processes are protected better than possible on a system where SELinux 
is not used.

Jim

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