Wow! Lots of kernel flaws...

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Wed Nov 22 21:58:18 UTC 2006


On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:40:37PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> (but this is a very good argument to make sure our desktop environments
> don't mount "external" filesystems such as cds and usb sticks
> automatically; especially if the filesystem isn't one native for the
> device; eg iso9660 for the cd and vfat for the usb stick)

We are clearly pushed the other way.  Even more; I vividly remember
a prolonged and recurring fight to prevent automatic mounts of
_disk_ file systems which are not listed in /etc/fstab.  Until Alan
read a riot act arguments why this is very bad were not accepted.

  Michal




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