Subject: Re: Patch to disallow mounts of unclean FFS unless forced
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Kamal R Prasad <kamalrpr@in.ibm.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/15/2003 19:22:03
> Easier is just to prevent bad data in a filesystem from causing a panic,
> or other crash, regardless of who mounted it, isn't it?
Yes. It depends on how much trouble it takes to implement that safeguard.
For non-root, its a must-have not to let bad media crash the system.
| Maybe, at mount time - a check can be made by the mount command if it
is
| safe to mount a filesystem if an unprivileged user is mounting one.
[snip]
>wouldn't provide any protection against bad data growing in the
filesystem
>due to I/O errors, etc.
Yeah - this is something I overlooked when suggesting the above.
regards
-kamal