From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C1E0279.7030102@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:34:33 +0300 From: Hans Reiser MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: forrest whitcher , SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov, "Vladimir V. Saveliev" , Nikita Danilov 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 Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>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. >> > >SELinux uses the inode number as an identifier for the file in the >persistent label mapping in each filesystem. So it doesn't find files >based on the inode number, but it needs each file in a filesystem to have >a unique and persistent inode number. It sounds like reiserfs does >currently provide this property. > >-- >Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs >ssmalley@nai.com > > > > > > yes, so everything is easy for now.:) 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.