On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:

> We currently have unique and persistent inode numbers (at least until we
> someday write a repacker that will optimize key assignments for better
> layout), but you can't use them for finding files that are not in the
> cache. To find such files requires a key.

SELinux uses the inode number as an identifier for the file in the persistent label mapping in each filesystem. So it doesn't find files based on the inode number, but it needs each file in a filesystem to have a unique and persistent inode number. It sounds like reiserfs does currently provide this property.

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Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
ssmalley@nai.com





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