On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:12:50AM +0000, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 10:56 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > I think the tencency is to mount untrusted file systems over FUSE, [...] > > due to the realisation that file system code wasn't designed with > > malicious file system images in mind (remember? the time that code > > got written, you had one hard disk firmly screwed into your beige > > box computer), and on the hope that something exploding in user > > space might be less devastating that having it explode in kernel > > space... > > I can see there is good reasoning in that, perhaps that reasoning has > been implemented by the components in Debian Bullseye. Does seem a > little perverse though if it should be implemented just after Linux > gains an exFAT kernel driver, a filesystem that only really exists for > interoperability between devices (i.e. those that will be removable > media). I'd think exFAT lands as well in libguestfs, where it can be used by FUSE. Code is, after all, code ;-) Cheers - t
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