Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756057AbaLHWOO (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:14:14 -0500 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:46180 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754824AbaLHWOM (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:14:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:14:01 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , Network Development Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov_iter.c rewrite Message-ID: <20141208221401.GA4991@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , Network Development References: <20141204202011.GO29748@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20141208164650.GB29028@node.dhcp.inet.fi> <20141208175805.GB22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20141208185635.GA25867@node.dhcp.inet.fi> <20141208192358.GB25867@node.dhcp.inet.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141208192358.GB25867@node.dhcp.inet.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > I guess you're running it in a VM, but still.. Doing random system > > calls as root sounds like a bad bad idea. > > I'm doing this for a long time and didn't see any problem bigger than qemu > crash[1]. ;) > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/194845/ If you use something like this: -drive file=root_fs.img,if=virtio,snapshot=on running trinity as root should be quite safe in a VM. :-) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/