Re: Modified floppies can crash Linux (fwd)

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:03:06 -0500


No, actually, David has a point.

The ext2 filesystem will panic if it gets a read error when reading the
inode table, or the inode or block bitmaps. It's quite wrong, and
should be fixed. Fortunately, it's not that hard to fix. I'll try to
get patches to deal with this post haste.

- Ted

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