Re: Security namespace (was Re: Checking FS type)

[Diyab <diyab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Scott wrote:
> Hi there Timothy,
>
> You'll want to read the thread "[patch] security. namespace"
> recently - see the linux-xfs list archives on oss.sgi.com.
>
> The right way to implement this is to support the "security"
> namespace in XFS.  The attached (experimental) patch does
> just that - there are missing pieces (xfsdump/xfsrestore do
> not support this yet, etc), but this seems fairly stable so
> far.  The patch is from late last year, it will need a few
> tweaks to work with the current CVS trees, but should apply
> relatively cleanly to older trees and Marcelo's bk tree (but
> not yet Andrew's/Linus' bk tree - thats a few changes behind
> us just at the moment and will conflict on this one).
>
> It needs some more testing, and technical discussion between
> us SGI folks before this patch will be applied.  (so please
> don't follow up with "when will this be applied" questions ;)
>
> Have fun.
>
> cheers.
Thanks for the patch and the pointer to the previous discussion. I'm 
going to try and get this patch applied to the current 2.6.x kernel.  If 
I can get it working it should solve the problem I was originally trying 
to fix.
Timothy,