How does Fedora handle the size, does it use 256 or 512 be default? If its 256, shouldn't they change this? On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:51:00 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito <cpebenito@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:29 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:23, Justin Conover wrote: > > > Is there any downside to running xfs with selinux? > > > > > > I'm just testing(playing) with test2 and I was thinking of using > > > lvm/xfs/selinux. Choosing xfs because it is a good fs and easier to > > > grow online than ext3. Plus I'm just testing :) > > > > We haven't tried xfs with SELinux ourselves, but it _should_ work. > > Please report any problems. It has xattr handlers for the security > > namespace. There was an earlier problem with xfs preventing SELinux > > from internally accessing the xattrs, but I believe that has been fixed. > > The one catch is to use a larger inode size; 512 should be sufficient. > XFS stores the xattr in the inode if there's enough space in it. > Otherwise it has to allocate a whole block to store the xattr, which > incurs a performance penalty and a waste of space. The default size > (256) isn't big enough for the context. So when you mkfs, add -i > size=512 to the command line options. > > -- > Chris PeBenito > Tresys Technology, LLC > (410) 290-1411 x150 > >
