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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mount: overwrite options from /etc/fstab when given on the commandline
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:32:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120801103248.GA7670@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5019017E.4050704@redhat.com>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:14:22PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 12:03 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:48:33AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >>> Some options are not allowed to be
> >>> passed multiple times (like the SElinux context options) and mounting will fail
> >>> if options are present in both /etc/fstab and on the commandline.
> >>
> >> This is stupid SELinux disadvantage and SELinux should be fixed.
> >
> > Note that mount(8) and libmount removes all selinux context options on
> > remount for kernels<  2.6.39 because SELinux context remount was
> > unsupported, so this SELinux disadvantage should be hidden for usual
> > use case.
> >
> > Maybe we can also add another exception for SELinux to de-duplicate
> > the SELinux context options in the options string. It's not perfect,
> > but probably acceptable for SELinux -- I can do this for 2.22-rc2.
> 
> That would be great. What is your opinion on getting the SElinux options
> handled differently in the kernel instead or in addition? 

SELinux is no filesystem and we already have (must have) SELinux
specific code in mount(8) (and many others utils;-).

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-01 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01  9:11 [RFC] mount: overwrite options from /etc/fstab when given on the commandline Niels de Vos
2012-08-01  9:48 ` Karel Zak
2012-08-01 10:03   ` Karel Zak
2012-08-01 10:14     ` Niels de Vos
2012-08-01 10:32       ` Karel Zak [this message]
2012-08-01 11:58         ` Niels de Vos
2012-08-01 17:08           ` Karel Zak
2012-08-02  9:46             ` Niels de Vos
2012-08-01 10:11   ` Niels de Vos

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