Re: Self-destruct password

[Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tim Walberg wrote:
> And what do you do should you have a power failure half-way
> through, unless you do some very careful checkpointing, and
> other such safeguards...?

The same as you do with ext2 in general, I think.

Virtually *nothing* in the current kernel has checkpointing or any other
safeguards.

You can toast *unencrypted* ext2 filesystems with a badly timed power
outage.

I think that's why we use UPSes.

Anyway, your argument is akin to "its dangerous, so we shouldnt allow it
to be done".

So let's remove fdisk, and root access. Both of those are equally
dangerous.

-Dan


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