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

[Tony N. <ton...@ge...>]

At 9:01 PM +0200 4/24/06, Stelian Pop wrote:
>Le lundi 24 avril 2006 =FD 14:34 -0400, Tony Nelson a =C8crit :
>
>> I have only looked at the dump and restore source for a bit, but I believ=
e
>> 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 tha=
t
>> I'm not entirely sure that the dump is good, wiping out the original woul=
d
>> 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...

I've filed bugs against restore (so the maintainers know about the issue)
and against Fedora Core 5 SELinux:

[ dump-Bugs-1475895 ] FC5 SELinux causes miscompares for restore -C
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=3Ddetail&atid=3D101306&aid=3D1475895&g=
roup_id=3D1306

[Bug 189845] New:  FC5 SELinux causes miscompares for restore -C
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D189845
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