Re: [PATCH xfstests] _qmount: mount w/o selinux xattrs

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/02/2010 02:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:58:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> when selinux is on it can change quota usage due to extra
>> xattr blocks.
>>
>> Mounting with a context prevents this.  We already do so
>> for xfs in general because so many things look at detailed
>> on-disk format, and extra xattrs confuses those tests.
>>
>> For other filesystems, we've left selinux alone so far, 
>> as that seemed the best way to test.
>>
>> However, it throws quota accounting off, so add a fixup
>> in _qmount()
> 
> What about just disabling selinux for all filesystems instead of just
> XFS for the general case.

Well it seems like if we -can- test with it on, that's good.
Certain distros ship with it on by default, so exercising lots
of scenarios with it on seems beneficial...

-Eric