Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 00:33:55 -0700 From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r349589 - in head: sbin/mount sys/sys sys/ufs/ffs Message-ID: <CAJ5_RoBEnCdMBJbcr0eJJ6FnSW56uiYpfDGPTs3Np2ZJ0ymmvw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201907012322.x61NMRGS078268@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201907012322.x61NMRGS078268@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:33 PM Kirk McKusick via svn-src-all < svn-src-all@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: mckusick > Date: Mon Jul 1 23:22:26 2019 > New Revision: 349589 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/349589 > > Log: > Add a new "untrusted" option to the mount command. Its purpose > is to notify the kernel that the file system is untrusted and it > should use more extensive checks on the file-system's metadata > before using it. This option is intended to be used when mounting > file systems from untrusted media such as USB memory sticks or other > externally-provided media. > > Are these additional extensive checks supposed to be computationally expensive in some regard, that we would not want to just always perform them? Thanks, Ben
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