On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:46 +0100, Michal Toman wrote:
Hi,
making Retrace Server able to handle F15 crashes, I found a problem. So far, we are using tmpfs for chroots, because it is significantly faster to retrace in memory than on HDD. Everything works perfectly for F14 (and also RHEL6), however for F15 it does not.
F15 introduces file capabilities and these are not working in tmpfs.
What are file capabilities and why do we need them?
It is a kernel problem, probably fixed in rawhide (and F15?) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648653 (not tested). Retrace on ext4 HDD works, but of course, it is much slower. With both our testing machines running RHEL-6 and test day approaching, we should think what to do.