Subject: Re: [vserver] Possible Hashify Corruption - Update 2
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:32:26 +0100

Couldn't agree more. And in this case, if was a bug in the file system.

Rik Bobbaers wrote:
> short reply:
> 
> if userspace can break your filesystem, there is a bug in your filesystem,
> PERIOD.
> 
> This should never under any circumstance happen, there should be as much
> protection as possible against it.
> Same goes for a binary that gets you root access when specifying a bad
> parameter, it's a root exploit and should be fixed, it's a bug...
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> 
> Rik Bobbaers
> 
> -- http://harry.enzoverder.be
> linux/unix/system/network/security/hardware admin
> infrastructure architect
> 
>> Hi,
> <snip>
>> So any ext4 corruption you can find has to do with bad
>> applications combined with a hard reboot, there is no real
>> corruption going on in the filesystem.
> 
>