On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:31:39AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > I was planning on leaving the security_inode_post* hooks intact at least > until the other filesystem types that support security xattrs have all > been converted to use the new hook,
Having these transactional guarantees just for some filesystem and not others is really bad, we should provide a coherent interface. > and even then only after a separate > RFC to confirm that it is ok to kill those hooks. Otherwise, we'd be > breaking any existing systems that are using SELinux with xfs, jfs, or > reiserfs. Partial transitions are always bad things, and we should avoid them for one that only affects these few users of the interface. Just keep the patch in -mm until people have updated these filesystems. I'll look at XFS ASAP. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
