Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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yes, so everything is easy for now.:)

Hans

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