On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:53, Dan Hollis wrote: > > If selinux cant run on reiserfs, its not because its missing XATTRs, > > because theyre not missing. > While xattr support does now exist for reiserfs in the mainline kernel, > there are problems in using it for SELinux; implementing the xattrs as > regular files leads to deadlock when SELinux and reiserfs interact > during xattr setup. Those problems have been reported to the reiserfs > maintainers for some time, along with proposed patches to address the > issues, but they have failed to act on them to date. Presumably you reported the problems to chris and jeff who actually wrote the patch, and not hans who objected to the patch? -Dan