Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 20:50 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
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2005-11-05
Ummmmmm MAC is not part of the filesystem, it is part of the kernel. Linux uses SELinux for it's implementation of MAC (Mandatory Access Control) and stores the information in EA (Extended Attributes). However, not all filesystems support EA.
The creator of that table in wikipedia was likely confused. SELinux users can use ext3 as their filesystem because it supports EA.
Solaris uses Trusted Extensions as their form of MAC and I am not qualified to say how it works. If Solaris's Trusted Extensions need's extended attributes on the filesystem (which they probably do) then TE should work on ZFS.