From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:38:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010126183816.A260@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14LOAm-0006z0-00@the-village.bc.nu> <E14LOAm-0006z0-00@the-village.bc.nu> <01012416081105.19999@nessie> <5.0.2.1.2.20010124162842.00a48720@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20010124170337Z129710-18594+930@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010124170337Z129710-18594+930@vger.kernel.org>; from Timur Tabi on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:03:30AM -0600
Hi!
> > >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?
AFAICS, ext3 is happy to write to read-only mounted partition. So
question was not completely stupid.
Pavel
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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 ` NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: " Timur Tabi
2001-01-24 17:09 ` mirabilos
2001-01-26 17:38 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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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