selinux and /etc/passwd

Nifty Hat Mitch mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Nov 10 23:33:31 UTC 2004


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:33:36PM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:33:36 +0800
> From: "Gideon N. Guillen" <gideong at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Gideon N. Guillen" <gideong at gmail.com>
> To: Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net>,
>         For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: selinux and /etc/passwd
> 
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:24:39 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch
> <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Yes it will work with XFS.
> 
> Cool!
>  
> > Hint, when running mkfs.xfs increase the size of the inode so it holds
> > the SELinux attributes without additional allocation.....
> 
> What inode size do you recommend for XFS + SELinux?

I "knew" ya were going to ask that....

A Google search finds a good answer: "512 byte Inode size".

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-April/msg00517.html

Since 512 is also a common disk block size some 'atomic' 
disk I/O issues vanish too.



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