rfs xattr's, mkinitrd and other stories

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

If anyone is interested, I've worked with Jeff Mahoney 
and Steve Smalley and between us we've got what should
be the necessary patches for using selinux with
reiserfs on 2.6.0 kernels. They are availabe here and
possibly on the Suse site by now:

 http://www.unixthugs.org/~jeffm/technical/reiserfs/aclea/2.6.0-test4/

So I'm on to the next phase of getting a debian 
system working with 2.6.0 (with devfs and a 
reiserfs root)

I've got to sort out the initrd next. I've not needed
it before so I'm on a cold start. First question is
how to do the least damage to the debian setup. If I
just replace /usr/sbin/mkinitrd, it is going to get
overwritten the next time I do an upgrade.

Secondly, all of the examples I find are somewhat
different. Steve's patch in the HOWTO is for a
very different looking RH file so it's hard to
tell what he actually needs. Colin's July 17 looks
reasonable and I'll probably start with that... but
I am worried about the issues with debian packages.

Colin? Russ? What approach do you suggest?

BTW: I'm using Colin's policy default with a few
fixes to let syslog-ng work. Russell's set is too
divergent from Colin's for me to use it unless they've
synced up recently.

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