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From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:03:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010124170337Z129710-18594+930@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010124162842.00a48720@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <E14LOAm-0006z0-00@the-village.bc.nu> <E14LOAm-0006z0-00@the-village.bc.nu>  <01012416081105.19999@nessie>

** Reply to message from Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> on Wed, 24 Jan
2001 16:54:36 +0000


> >Is read access safe ?
> 
> Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY 
> nothing can happen to it in any way, your NTFS data is at least safe.

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?


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-24 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.31ksi3.0101241721470.605-100000@nomad.cyberbill s.com>
2001-01-24 11:33 ` Linux 2.4.0ac11 Alan Cox
2001-01-24 15:05   ` Cataldo Thomas
2001-01-24 17:03     ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2001-01-24 17:09       ` NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: " mirabilos
2001-01-26 17:38       ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-24 17:23     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-24 16:54   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-24 20:06   ` Luc de Louw
2001-01-25  1:36     ` Alan Cox
2001-01-25  1:39   ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-01-25  5:18     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-25 11:02       ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-25 16:50       ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-01-25  2:04   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-25  2:13     ` Sergey Kubushin

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