Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbVALOwG (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:52:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261204AbVALOwF (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:52:05 -0500 Received: from adsl-298.mirage.euroweb.hu ([193.226.239.42]:33666 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261203AbVALOv6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:51:58 -0500 To: diegocg@gmail.com CC: kinema@gmail.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-reply-to: <20050112153131.1f778264.diegocg@gmail.com> (message from Diego Calleja on Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:31:31 +0100) Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging? References: <20050112153131.1f778264.diegocg@gmail.com> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:51:27 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 20 > -You could implement several "not-performance-critical" filesystems (fat, > isofs) with FUSE to avoid possible security issues. Give that nowadays > usb sticks and cd/dvds are so common it'd be possible to modify a filesystem > on purpose to crash the kernel if a bug were found in those filesytems. With > FUSE that posibility decreases. One of my pet ideas, is a userspace loopback mounter, which would use UML to actually mount an image, and export the resulting filesystem through FUSE to the host. Brilliant isn't it? Miklos - 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/