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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:00:35 -0800
From: Peter Gordon <codergeek42@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: security capabilities on filesystems
Cc: Lukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm>
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On 1/29/06, Lukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I've poke around for some information but all I got (was this lousy t-shirt)
> that there is no support for capablities stored on a filesystem. However, I'd
> like to ask if there are any chances to see this feature soon.
>

What do you mean exactly? Ext2 (and its journalled cousin, Ext3; I'm
not certain of other filesystems) can both store POSIX-style Access
Control Lists (ACLs) and SELinux labeling as part of the inode
metadata. Hope this helps.
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