Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932532AbWHNRVU (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:21:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932549AbWHNRVT (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:21:19 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:54674 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932532AbWHNRVT (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:21:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WrBsZrVI68lJTDZVVhpEjnX+xFBnjYnOGe611un6go/CuPgSeEDUHnTTT72/xKC0I4/w1idjj2p3FaM1CeeXt/jSnzpdd/a8pBk3IVI08hVNAv+5vqTH8x+BhLEIbA20djOhR2B+lUG1J1PKwVIR2OVvL86pEmZaq+HEfCp+4YM= Message-ID: <62b0912f0608141021k29fe899bhf49a4f82cae2173@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:21:17 +0200 From: "Molle Bestefich" To: "Theodore Tso" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3 corruption In-Reply-To: <20060814153459.GA12298@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <62b0912f0608091609q6b3c6c4ev2d287060fa209@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f0608101400t607cf9b7t5c2324f39cc2eed@mail.gmail.com> <20060812163834.GA11497@thunk.org> <62b0912f0608121024y1dde66aavcbf4df04631772c4@mail.gmail.com> <20060812214719.GA19156@thunk.org> <62b0912f0608131221n1657905p327b7ece6d06d20d@mail.gmail.com> <20060814153459.GA12298@thunk.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 20 Theodore Tso wrote: > To be fair, there are plenty of other dangerous things that you can do > with Windows that don't have warning messages pop-up. And using the > loop driver is of a complexity which is higher than what you would > expect of a typical Windows user. You might as well complain that > Linux doesn't give a warning message when you run some command like > "rm -rf /", or "dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda". I'm sure there are > similar commands (probably involving regedit :-) that are just as > dangerous from the Windows cmd.exe window..... Hardly comparable.. "rm", "dd if=/dev/null", "format c:" is meant to nuke your harddrive. The loop driver just does it as a nasty side effect of a stinky implementation. - 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/