From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C1B64C5.4000207@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 17:57:09 +0300 From: Hans Reiser MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: forrest whitcher , SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: persistent labelling on afs, jfs, xfs? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov 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. > >-- >Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs >ssmalley@nai.com > > > > >-- >You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux 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. > > 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 -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux 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.