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Re: FFS: wrong superblock check ~> crash



On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 01:10:58PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> [...]
> The basic issue here is that there are two use cases:
> 
>   The FFS file system in question is /, or /usr, or something else that
>   the operator deems Wicked Important.
> 
>   The FFS file syste is on some random removable media that someone just
>   wants to access.

For random removable media, the only reasonable way to access it is
from a non-root userland process :) Or in a single-use virtual machine.

Maybe we should run the USB stack in a non-root userland too, BTW.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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