Re: persistent labelling on afs, jfs, xfs?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, forrest whitcher wrote:
>
>>This is Reiserfs related.  The problem is that Reiserfs breaks the
>>inode-number assumption (the assumption is that a file is uniquely
>>represented by a device number for the partition and an inode number).
>>Unfortunately reiserfs doesn't do this, so AFS cache wont work.
>>
>
>We haven't tested SELinux with reiserfs, but others have claimed that it
>works.  However, if it is true that reiserfs doesn't have unique and
>persistent inode numbers for files, then SELinux will have problems with
>it.
>
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>ssmalley@nai.com
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We currently have unique and persistent inode numbers (at least until we 
someday write a repacker that will optimize key assignments for better 
layout), but you can't use them for finding files that are not in the 
cache.  To find such files requires a key.

Hans



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