Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov_iter.c rewrite

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Mon Dec 08 2014 - 17:14:17 EST


On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > I guess you're running it in a VM, but still.. Doing random system
> > calls as root sounds like a bad bad idea.
>
> I'm doing this for a long time and didn't see any problem bigger than qemu
> crash[1]. ;)
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/194845/

If you use something like this:

-drive file=root_fs.img,if=virtio,snapshot=on

running trinity as root should be quite safe in a VM. :-)

- Ted
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