From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 05:52:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 05:52:00 -0500 Received: from [194.213.32.137] ([194.213.32.137]:29188 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 05:51:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20010126183816.A260@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:38:16 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Timur Tabi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11 In-Reply-To: <01012416081105.19999@nessie> <5.0.2.1.2.20010124162842.00a48720@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20010124170337Z129710-18594+930@vger.kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <20010124170337Z129710-18594+930@vger.kernel.org>; from Timur Tabi on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:03:30AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/