James Morris wrote:
The patch must be acceptable upstream, in the mainline kernel.
As I understand it, Hans Reiser has indicated that he will only accept bugfixes for reiser3. It is therefore very unlikely that anyone could come up with a patch which would be merged upstream. Reiser4 will support file metadata from the beginning, but of course it's not available yet.
I realised, though, that I don't really need to build a custom kernel. All I need to make is one module ("sereiserfs") which I then load into the normal kernel. I should be able to build that using the normal RedHat kernel source plus the SuSE patch.
Assuming it works as expected, I'll announce it here for the benefit of anyone else who wants to use reiserfs. I'm unlikely to build it until FC2 is actually released though.
It is labeled at the kernel level (like genfs mounts), SELinux controls work normally, and root cannot do anything special that could not be done with an xattr filesystem.
So is the idea that the whole filesystem gets the same label? That sounds useful in some circumstances, but building a new reiserfs module is more *fun*. :-)
Pete
