On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:27:09AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> | I had actually suggested that the patch removing the old post hooks from
> | the VFS be deferred until after 2.6.14 to avoid breaking the unconverted
> | filesystems while still allowing the converted ones to use the new
> | support, but it seems my request was misunderstood. We could possibly
> | ask to have the removal patch reverted
>
> Please do that, we are not going to be able to fix this quickly in
> XFS, as there is an underlying issue here that makes this alot more
> tricky to resolve in XFS. But we are aware of the problem and do
> plan to fix it, so if you could cater for XFS/SE-Linux users for a
> little while longer, that would be great.
No, reverting this is bogus. If you really want to support selinux without
real transaction support just implement the new inode initialization method
without doing adding the labeling to the transaction. Personally I believe
XFS shouldn't claim to support things it doesn't yet, though.
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