MAC subsystem and ZFS?

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Borja Marcos wrote:

> I'm trying to upgrade the configuration of some web services, already using 
> the MAC subsystem, to use ZFS instead of UFS, but I see that ZFS doesn't 
> support MAC labels, even for a whole filesystem, which would be fine for me, 
> I don't need multilabel support.
>
> Any ideas? Have I missed anything?

Hmmm.  Sounds like a bug -- all file systems should be able to operate in 
single-label mode, even if they don't support EAs and multilabel mode.  Could 
you describe the symptoms you're experiencing in a bit more detail?

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge