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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs mailing list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH xfstests] _qmount: mount w/o selinux xattrs
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:48:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2E2687.3080700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100702071006.GB30776@infradead.org>

On 07/02/2010 02:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:58:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> when selinux is on it can change quota usage due to extra
>> xattr blocks.
>>
>> Mounting with a context prevents this.  We already do so
>> for xfs in general because so many things look at detailed
>> on-disk format, and extra xattrs confuses those tests.
>>
>> For other filesystems, we've left selinux alone so far, 
>> as that seemed the best way to test.
>>
>> However, it throws quota accounting off, so add a fixup
>> in _qmount()
> 
> What about just disabling selinux for all filesystems instead of just
> XFS for the general case.

Well it seems like if we -can- test with it on, that's good.
Certain distros ship with it on by default, so exercising lots
of scenarios with it on seems beneficial...

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-02 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-01 19:58 [PATCH xfstests] _qmount: mount w/o selinux xattrs Eric Sandeen
2010-07-02  7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-02 17:48   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-07-09 16:12     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-12 19:29       ` Eric Sandeen
2010-07-12 22:13         ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-13 16:40           ` Eric Sandeen

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