Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:43:32 PST From: Brian Smith <brians@mandor.dev.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <199611261643.IAA06314@mandor.dev.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: >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. :-) Agreed! But, it really is a useful feature, even if you have to walk on eggshells. We have drives that are dangerously dedicated, now we can have partitions that are dangerously mounted. :-) >I'd welcome some compromise solutions, otherwise I think it's simply >too dangerous to advertise, explicitly or implicitly, as a feature. What I really would like (if possible) is a means where the FS is kept in the distribution, but made difficult to use for newbies. Kind of like LFS and union FS, where you specifically have to make a new kernel. Label it experimental, and maybe put kernel printf's in the mount routine that say "Reboot! Reboot! Abandon all hope, ye who mount this FS." ;) Removing it from the GENERIC kernel, not distributing the LKM, and perhaps some dire warnings in the LINT configuration might do the trick. Brian brians@mandor.dev.com
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