Re: [Dump-users] restore -C EA (SELinux) problem

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Le lundi 24 avril 2006 =E0 14:34 -0400, Tony Nelson a =E9crit :

> I have only looked at the dump and restore source for a bit, but I beli=
eve
> that dump dumps all of the EA and restore views files through the
> filesystem calls, which invoke SELinux code that "improve" the results =
if
> the MLS data is not present on disk.=20

Ah ok, seems plausible indeed.

> >Try restoring your backup (not just verifying it), and run getfattr on
> >both the original and the extracted file. What is the result ?
>=20
> I'm sorry, but I'm not going to wipe my FC3 volume to do this.  Given t=
hat
> I'm not entirely sure that the dump is good, wiping out the original wo=
uld
> be imprudent.

Oh no, I didn't meant to wipe your existing volume, just extract the
dump (or a part of it) into another, temporary directory...

But if you're correct it won't show any difference at all since once the
files are created by restore, with the 'old' EA, further getxattrs will
return the 'improved' EA...

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <st...@po...>