Yet another try for fs-verity

Posted Jun 6, 2019 5:39 UTC (Thu) by draco (subscriber, #1792)
Parent article: Yet another try for fs-verity

I don't like the idea that attempts to write to the file will fail even though the permissions bits allow writing.

Will /bin/ls be tweaked in some way to notify users that the fs-verity mode is set? Currently SELinux contexts add '.' and ACLs add '+' to the end of the permissions string. To my mind, something similar should apply. Perhaps '#' (since the file is hashed)?

Yet another try for fs-verity

Posted Mar 7, 2025 13:45 UTC (Fri) by cybertom (guest, #176384) [Link]

I agree with your statement. For the current fs-verity use case, it seems that we cannot directly see from the file system whether the target file is using the fs-verity feature.