[OpenAFS] selinux afs domain v 0.2

Tino Schwarze tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:48:47 +0100


On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:07:18PM -0500, forrest whitcher wrote:

> 1.  Running volume location and fileserver under the selinux kernel.
> 
> The creation of the .../security directory and the included inode index files 
> has a fairly high chance of breaking the fileserver volume operation.
> 
> Afs volume partitions on linux are in ext2fs but must never be treated
> as regular filesystems, and fsck will destroy the volume data.

This is not true anymore. The Linux fileserver uses the NAMEI interface
and does not do any fancy things behind the back with the filesystem
(apart from creating silly names which doesn't count here). The server
partitions can in fact use any filesystem when using the NAMEI
interface.

Bye, Tino.

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