On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:56:58PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:47 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > > Because then you have to change the entire security structure, > > and you aren't a snapshot anymore. > > I won't argue with the security part, but the snapshot part could just > as easily be defined by the data and not the inode. In ZFS/btrfs/WAFL/disk array snaps, if you go back to a snap does the selinux context or acls or equivalent appear different? I don't think so, and I expect people would be really upset if they had to know all the restorecon/acl-fu to get it right. Joel -- "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
