Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

[mirabilos]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> 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?

IMHO the NTFS driver creators weren't bloody newbies and won't do such
a bug, even not by accidence.
Also I think there might be a VFS protection of R/O space, but I'm not sure.


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