Re: Question regarding restorecon and btrfs read-only snapshots

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM Petr Lautrbach <lautrbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Cathy Hu <cahu@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On 17.03.25 15:29, Petr Lautrbach wrote:
> >>
> >> You could use `-e <directory>` to exclude read only subdirectories.
> >>
> >
> > Yes that is possible, but also requires a manual change by the user to set
> > this up together with the snapshot (same as telling them to add <<none>>),
> > which we would like to avoid.
>
> Your -relabel.service's are generated and so can be restorecon options
> there.
>
> Fedora uses fixfiles -
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/blob/main/policycoreutils/scripts/fixfiles
> - which detects ro filesystems and skip them.

We already have logic in libselinux/src/selinux_restorecon.c to
exclude filesystems that lack seclabel support; should we augment this
to also exclude read-only filesystems to avoid the need to work around
this in all callers?

>
>
>
> > Is there a reason why these r-o subvolumes are not skipped by default?
> > Could they be skipped without a problem and it is just missing the implementation?
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Cathy
> >





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