From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Overlay Filesystem and SELinux From: Jaspreet Singh Reply-To: jsingh@ensim.com To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Cc: Dale Amon , Erich Schubert , Stephen Smalley , nsa In-Reply-To: <20041227102704.GB6750@lkcl.net> References: <1098274225.12118.20.camel@jsingh.india.ensim.com> <20041020151031.GB21185@lkcl.net> <20041020174938.GL21185@lkcl.net> <1098887565.1620.15.camel@jsingh.india.ensim.com> <1104022405.29054.7.camel@wintermute.xmldesign.de> <1104050461.14672.6.camel@jsingh> <20041226125404.GA2459@vnl.com> <1104086350.19031.13.camel@jsingh> <20041227102704.GB6750@lkcl.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:29:33 +0530 Message-Id: <1104145173.20250.2.camel@jsingh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Hi Luke, On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:27 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > are the knoppix team aware of it? > well no ... I am in touch with Tomas Matejicek of www.linux-live.org I think i would mail and check response. Anyone in touch with them ??? I am studying selinux implementation in 2.6 kernels .. anyone with revelent docs .. the one on nsa website is stale. Thanx, Jaspreet > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:09:10AM +0530, Jaspreet Singh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:54 +0000, Dale Amon wrote: > > > > That project is now .. not maintained .. and now I am involved in a much > > > > more sophisticated implementation called - "unionfs" . Check this link - > > > > www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html > > > > > > > > Unionfs was initially only for 2.4 kernel, but i recently ported it to > > > > 2.6. The port is not official yet. But, its working. > > > > > > Brilliant. I have been waiting for this quite literally > > > for years. What are the chances it will go into the > > > main kernel tree? > > > > Thanx :) , Yes the official maintainers can answer that question better. > > For all i know unionfs is been publicized at lkml and there are talks > > for the same. > > > > Till recently, it just seemed to be an academic project. But now it has > > gained momentum. I have used and extended 3 overlay file-systems .. and > > this one seemed to be most promising and stable. > > > > It has some very good features like - adding/removing branches (i.e > > directories ) from a union. > > > > But, i am just a fresh grad .. probably people out there and judge this > > file-system better. > > > > Currently my port works on 2.6.0 -to- 2.6.9 kernels .. but maintainers > > are reviewing it .. would work on it. > > > > Thanx, > > Jaspreet > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. > > If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with > > the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message. > -- -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.