Actually the .journal files are only visible when they're created on a mounted filesystem. If they're created by mke2fs -j they're made invisible.

So Stephen's machine was a clean install of Red Hat 7.2 and Justin's was an upgrade or a manual enhancement of an ext2 fs.

-Paul

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On 17 Jan 2002, Justin Smith wrote:
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>>When trying to label files with the setfiles utilities, the process
>>crashes when they encounter the .journal files. These are user-visible,
>>but are not regular files (they are immutable in the sense that even
>>root cannot change them in any way). The setfiles utilities issue a
>>warning that they cannot write to .journal and quit.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Perhaps there should be some way of exempting the .journal files from
>>the labelling process. It is unfortunate that they are visible to users
>>(since users cannot actually use them for anything).
>>
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