On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> Oh great, then things like source code control systems would have no
> problems with new files being created under them, or renaming whole
> trees.
It depends -- I think we may be talking about different things.
If you're using inotify to watch for new files and kick something in
userspace to relabel them, it could take a while to relabel a lot of
files, although there are likely some gains to be had from parallel
relabeling which we've not explored.
What I was saying is that you can use traditional SELinux labeling policy
underneath that to ensure that there is always a safe label on each file
before it is relabeled from userspace.
> So, so much for the "it's going to be too slow re-labeling everything"
> issue, as it's not even required for almost all situations :)
You could probably get an idea of the cost by running something like:
$ time find /usr/src/linux | xargs setfattr -n user.foo -v bar
On my system, it takes about 1.2 seconds to label a fully checked out
kernel source tree with ~23,000 files in this manner, on a stock standard
ext3 filesystem with a SATA drive.
- James
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