On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:16 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > I've just downloaded the fedora 11 livecd and am installing it on an > imac. during the partition scheme should I use ext4, > or stick with ext3 for SELinux to function properly? The current policy is configured to use xattrs on any of these filesystems: $ grep '^fs_use_xattr' policy.conf fs_use_xattr btrfs system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr encfs system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr ext2 system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr ext3 system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr ext4 system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr ext4dev system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr gfs system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr gfs2 system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr jffs2 system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr jfs system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr lustre system_u:object_r:fs_t; fs_use_xattr xfs system_u:object_r:fs_t; As to whether or not they all truly work, I don't know. I have used ext4 though without any selinux problems, and btrfs has been reported to work as well. I also saw some fixes for reiserfs support for security.* attributes get committed earlier this year, so possibly we could move reiserfs back to the fs_use_xattr list. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
