From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 05:11:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA18889 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 05:11:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA18876 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 05:11:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Wed, 27 Nov 96 14:11 MET Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org id ; Wed, 27 Nov 96 14:11 MET Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07737; Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:51:18 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:51:18 +0100 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9611271251.AA07737@wavehh.hanse.de> To: jkh@time.cdrom.COM Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Newsgroups: hanse-ml.freebsd.hackers References: <199611260208.TAA02586@rocky.mt.sri.com> <8867.848975625@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'd welcome some compromise solutions, otherwise I think it's simply >too dangerous to advertise, explicitly or implicitly, as a feature. > Jordan What about read-only mode? Maybe I missed something, but I didn't hear from problems reading it. The whole situation could have been better it the MSDOSFS has been marked as broken in *all* example config files, many start from GENERIC, not from LINT. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin_Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://cracauer.cons.org Fax.: +4940 5228536 "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin