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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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