From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:21:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:20:54 -0500 Received: from [212.255.16.226] ([212.255.16.226]:16365 "HELO www.topmail.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:20:32 -0500 Message-ID: <008f01c08629$f2582d20$0100a8c0@homeip.net> From: "mirabilos" To: "Linux-Kernel ML" In-Reply-To: <01012416081105.19999@nessie> <20010124170337Z129710-18594+930@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:09:49 -0000 Organization: eccesys.net Linux Distribution Development MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Timur Tabi wrote: > Isn't it still theoretcially possible for the driver to send commands to the > disk controller that cause data to become overwritten, even when it's just > supposed to read that data? IMHO the NTFS driver creators weren't bloody newbies and won't do such a bug, even not by accidence. Also I think there might be a VFS protection of R/O space, but I'm not sure. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/