SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:30:29 -0400,
  John Mellor <john.mellor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with you about the extreme cost of the relabel problem, but that
> may be due to a lack of knowledge on my part.  Relabeling the very small
> subset of space that is used for system and some of the more common
> applications is only going to take a couple of minutes, but if I have a
> few petabytes of disks attached, I do NOT want that walked under any
> circumstances by the relabeling process.  Is there a way to restrict the
> relabeling to only a small subset of the filesystem?

restorecon can relabel recursively down from directories.
You shouldn't have to be doing many relabels in any case. Updates are supposed
to take care of that.