Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:41:37 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | | Subject | Re: swapfile security weakeness |
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> swapon should keep a handle on the inode, which means the file won't >> be removed from the physical media even if it is unlinked (just like >> open files aren't.) > >Unfortunately, there are a few issues with that: >- it doesn't work on inodeless FSes (msdosfs) >- you can't swapoff() a deleted file, leaving minor > fs corruption on reboot (and major corruption on > umsdos and the like) ^^^^^^ My MSDOS FAT system was in fact UMSDOS mounted, and I most certainly had massive corruption as you describe.
>- since you can't swapoff() the deleted file, you > can't reclaim the disk space > >This basically means that we have a real problem at >hand that should be fixed.
Well, only to be technically correct and perfect I suppose, but does anyone really still use MSDOS/UMSDOS filesystems for anything under Linux? I mean, I have MSDOS mounted rw for data sharing and DOSEMU access, but not for storing any Linux stuff on. Before I had UMSDOS for extra Linux space in a limited system setting.
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