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Re: XFS and SE Linux

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_epoch.ncsc.mil>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:00:43 -0500


On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 08:14, Russell Coker wrote:
> Currently in SE Linux the contexts for files are of the form
> "system_u:object_r:file_t", why not express them on disk as
> "system_u:file_t"? Saving 9 bytes in this manner could make some of them fit
> into a 256 byte Inode in XFS which would be a significant advantage. Also
> for Ext2/Ext3 it will save some space as well.

Why not just fix XFS to handle xattrs sanely?

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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