Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:03:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, ben@narcissus.ml.org, kjk1@ukc.ac.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <199611261803.LAA25314@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <8867.848975625@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 25, 96 06:33:45 pm
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> > I use it all the time, but I'm *very* careful not to run more than one > > process on the FS, and I unmount the darn thing as soon as I read/write > > the files to the FS. > > > > It works as long as I treat it like fragile china, and not having it > > would be a real setback for me. > > I understand this, but you also have to realize that many people don't > understand the fragile china approach (and with justification - how > *would* one generally know?) and it's a real setback to have your UFS > filesystems blown away too. :-) > > I'd welcome some compromise solutions, otherwise I think it's simply > too dangerous to advertise, explicitly or implicitly, as a feature. When will devfs be standard? Once devfs is standard, it will be possible to sandbox FS's to prevent collateral damage. The MSDOSFS damage is uniformly collateral damage on a following BSD partition. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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