From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: diegocg@gmail.com, kinema@gmail.com,
fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging?
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:08:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050113140844.GA2599@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CojqJ-0001Mw-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Hi!
> > -You could implement several "not-performance-critical" filesystems (fat,
> > isofs) with FUSE to avoid possible security issues. Give that nowadays
> > usb sticks and cd/dvds are so common it'd be possible to modify a filesystem
> > on purpose to crash the kernel if a bug were found in those filesytems. With
> > FUSE that posibility decreases.
>
> One of my pet ideas, is a userspace loopback mounter, which would use
> UML to actually mount an image, and export the resulting filesystem
> through FUSE to the host.
>
> Brilliant isn't it?
Uh, yes, it actually makes sense.
OTOH perhaps porting linux's vfs to userland would be better idea.
People would like to tap on .iso images in mc to open them, but running
full UML to do this is little heavy-weight solution.
Pavel
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[not found] ` <E1ClQi2-0004BO-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
2005-01-12 13:49 ` [fuse-devel] Merging? Miklos Szeredi
2005-01-12 14:31 ` Diego Calleja
2005-01-12 14:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <200501122120.08217.vincenzo_mlRE.MOVE@yahoo.it>
2005-01-12 20:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-01-13 14:08 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-01-12 15:58 ` Florian Schanda
2005-01-12 16:16 ` Dobrica Pavlinusic
2005-01-14 11:37 ` Nix
2005-01-12 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-12 19:15 ` Erik Hensema
2005-01-12 19:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-01-12 20:15 ` Christian Axelsson
2005-01-12 20:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-01-12 20:51 ` Diego Calleja
2005-01-12 21:15 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-01-13 14:37 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-17 17:01 ` Steve McIntyre
2005-01-18 22:23 ` Luca Ferroni
2005-01-12 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-12 20:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-01-12 20:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-13 9:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-01-13 10:52 ` Bernhard Schauer
2005-01-12 15:19 Hubert Tonneau
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2005-01-12 21:33 Vincenzo Ciancia
2005-01-12 23:19 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
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