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Re: Multiple contexts

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_epoch.ncsc.mil>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:10:55 -0500


On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > Having to analyze the complete filesystem state:
> > 1) doesn't scale. Think of a site with millions of files.
>
> ... setfiles?

As I've said repeatedly, setfiles was only intended to be used to perform initial labeling upon installation, and possibly to periodically recheck/restore portions of the filesystem against the initial labeling state. Nothing else.

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


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