ReiserFS 3.6

[Justin Conover]

On 1/16/06, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --


XFS has also been supported.
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