From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Plumbers MD BOF discussion notes
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:57:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59BFD0DF.7070006@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709180852450.29378@uplift.swm.pp.se>
On 18/09/17 08:04, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> If we could disable writing to the drives/partitions from regular
> userspace when they're handled by md, that could be some kind of middle
> ground. I guess most tools don't use O_EXCL.
It would make sense to set permissions to read-only, but of course on
Unix root just ignores permissions :-(
Oh for Pr1mos where the only right that couldn't be taken away from the
super-user was the right to set rights :-)
Cheers,
Wol
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-18 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-15 14:27 Linux Plumbers MD BOF discussion notes Shaohua Li
2017-09-15 20:42 ` Coly Li
2017-09-15 21:20 ` Shaohua Li
2017-09-16 0:08 ` NeilBrown
2017-09-18 4:54 ` Shaohua Li
2017-09-18 7:04 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-09-18 8:56 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-01 5:32 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-10-04 0:49 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-04 11:02 ` Artur Paszkiewicz
2017-10-04 11:23 ` Artur Paszkiewicz
2017-10-04 17:30 ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2017-10-04 18:03 ` John Stoffel
2017-10-04 21:18 ` Phil Turmel
2017-10-04 21:41 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-05 18:52 ` Artur Paszkiewicz
2017-10-05 23:39 ` NeilBrown
2017-10-06 7:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-06 7:59 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-10-04 17:28 ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2017-10-04 18:13 ` Anthony Youngman
2017-09-18 13:57 ` Wols Lists [this message]
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