Re: Selective Compression/Encryption

Chris Mason
2008-12-10T13:45:50Z

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:22 -0500, jim owens wrote:
> Joshua J. Berry wrote:

[ storing compression flags ]

> >
> > It seems like xattrs would be preferable to some btrfs-specific tunable, as
> > programs like rsync or backup tools would be able to preserve (and restore)
> > these bits with no extra work required.
>
> I had the same thought... that many btrfs per-file tunables would
> be better implemented in xattrs (I've read christoph's earlier
> objections and hope to get around those issues).
>
> I have been working on changing the xattr code with the first
> step getting it functioning properly when selinux is enabled
> so we can see just how costly btrfs xattrs are in actual use.

Not really on topic, but how are things broken today with selinux?

-chris