Darren J Moffat wrote: > Gary Winiger wrote: >>>> Well, they are static, no? >>> Static to a given site. The issue is that the labels themselves are >>> classified information for some customers - usually only the >>> compartment bits - and as such it would be better if we could >>> encrypt them so that the handling of disks that contain labels could >>> be reduced. >> >> That's why the internal format (aka hex label) is what is stored. >> By official government ruling (at least from us DoD) it is >> unclassified and may be view by anyone. > > Does that then mean we can't allow for 'zfs get slabel' to return the > label_to_str() version ? I could live with that providing we can > provide the 'zfs set slabel=public' rather than needing to use the > internal format to do zfs set. 'zfs get slabel' will work if it is run on a system with TX enabled, with a compatible label encodings file, and with sufficient privilege to translate the label. Otherwise it will just return the untranslated hex label strings.
--Glenn
