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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

      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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