enforcing DB immutability

2005-04-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: well, the 'owned by another user' solution is valid though, and doesnt have this particular problem. (We've got a secure multiuser OS, so can as well use it to protect the DB against corruption.) So

Re: enforcing DB immutability

2005-04-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps having a new 'immutable hardlink' feature in the Linux VFS would help? I.e. a hardlink that can only be readonly followed, and can be removed, but cannot be chmod-ed to a writeable hardlink. That i think would be a large enough barrier for