On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Why are you limited to a single fs? xfs and jfs have xattr support > out of the box (in 2.4 only jfs is actually in the mainline tree, though) Most of our users (and we) happen to use ext[23], so there isn't any point in migrating SELinux to using EAs until EA implementations are merged into those filesystems. Also, the EA API lacks support for creating files with specified security attributes (as opposed to creating and then calling setxattr to change the attributes, possibly after someone has already obtained access to the file), so it isn't ideal for our purposes anyway. -- Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs ssmalleyat_private _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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