On Monday 05 April 2004 12:57, Shahms King wrote: > 1) Unlabeled files in an xattr-capable filesystem. > -- Yes, this is a corner case, but will have to be dealt with, > especially for people upgrading from FC1 -> FC2 and RHEL3 -> RHEL4. > Most people don't want to reformat their home directories ;-P (isn't > that the point of an upgrade?). Having anaconda 'make relabel' on > unformatted, mounted partitions is probably reasonable for this specific > case, but not all. Another potential problem is read-only media > formatted with an xattr-capable filesystem. Jaz drives and Zip disks > may very well be ext3 formatted but physically marked "read-only". Or > removable media I want to use with an FC2 box at home and an FC1 box at > work . . . the possibilities are nearly endless. I don't believe it would be a good idea to do this during the install. However, during firstboot is another matter entirely. Furthermore, maybe it should not be a make relabel but prompt for each filesystem and /usr/sbin/setfiles against the filesystem. -- Gene
