Re: block allocation in ext2fs

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 08:35:25 EDT

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Hi,

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:24:26PM +0300, Benhanokh Gabriel wrote:
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> since i'm gonna do only the allocation and write nothing to the disk,

What are you going to do if a process allocates those blocks and then
reads them? Return the old contents of the disk blocks? That breaks
unix semantics and is a huge security hole.

--Stephen

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