[systemd-devel] systemd - move /selinux to /sys/fs/selinux - maybe remove /srv ?

[Michał Piotrowski]

2011/4/30 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>:
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> On 04/29/2011 06:56 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> On Fri, 29.04.11 00:37, Michał Piotrowski (mkkp4x4 at gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think it's a very good decision - I never understood why selinux dir
>>> is directly under /.
>>
>> Yes, I think this would be a good thing to have in F16.
>>
>> Note however that this needs a tiny kernel patch to work, to create the
>> mount point under /sys/fs/selinux. This is a trivial patch and has been
>> done for /sys/fs/cgroup before, so I assume this would be easy to get
>> in and just needs a champion to push this forward.
>>
>>> By the way, maybe it would be good to think about the meaning of /srv
>>> existance? For seven years FHS requires that this directory exists
>>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE16A
>>> but "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is
>>> unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be
>>> done" - so even the authors of the standard did not have anything to
>>> say about how this directory should be used. Is there a rational
>>> reason for the existence of this directory besides FHS conformance?
>>
>> I think /srv actually makes a lot of sense. Probably not so much on the
>> desktop, but the boundaries are blurry, and I see no reason to set
>> things up differently in this respect between servers and desktops. I
>> see little benefit in removing this directory.
>>
>> Lennart
>>
> I think moving /selinux is  a bit more complicated then just a simple
> kernel change.  We have libselinux changes, Lots of tools have learned
> over the years the path of /selinux and lots of users know about it.
>
> I am willing to work towards the goal of moving /selinux, but I might
> end up with a symbolic link if we can not fix all of the problems.

What was the original intention of creating selinux directory directly
under / ? Was this file system created at a 2.4 times when sysfs
didn't existed yet?

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