From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:22:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:22:21 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:65284 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:22:08 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Writes to mounted devices containing file-systems. Date: 10 Aug 2001 12:21:42 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: <9l1c86$2jv$1@cesium.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: By author: "Richard B. Johnson" In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > In this company, they hired a "CIO" who thinks that no computers > should have any local storage or boot capability. They must all > boot from some secure (M$) file-server. They will not be allowed > to have local disks and, horrors -- of course no floppy drives or > CD-ROMS. > This is actually a lot easier to do in Linux (using PXELINUX and NFSroot) -- M$ thinks of this as a threat to their licensing (fleecing) model. Seriously, you should use this as an inroad -- central control setups is something Unix absolutely excels at, and Windows does hideously poorly. > He doesn't care that we are in the business of making software-driven > machines so we require access to the guts of computers and their > operating systems. Test machines obviously can't be done this way, but they shouldn't contain important data. (And don't expect great performance, either, although with modern file servers and networks it can be better than you'd think.) > The next one will be: > > "Linux is insecure..." Consider SirCam and Code Red an "education campaign" for the clueless. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt