On 24 Jul 2000, Shalon Wood wrote:
> That attitude might be acceptable if 20% of the drives were
> vulnerable, but if 90% are vulnerable, things change.
>
> And the danger isn't from hostile root. The danger is from root
> running software that's buggy and sends garbage to the disk. It's good
> to make it harder to deliberately trash the disk, but yeah, root can
> do it if root wants too.
>
> But root shouldn't be able to do it *accidentally*.
Okay, so tell me, how many reports of this happening have there
been? This has been around for a *long* time, 2.0.x days at *least*.
If 90% of disks are vulnerable then surely we'd have heard of something,
as it is I don't believe there has been even one report of this.
Stephen
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jul 31 2000 - 21:00:16 EST