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SubjectRe: Modified floppies can crash Linux (fwd)
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Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Theodore Y. Ts'o:
>The ext2 filesystem will panic if it gets a read error when reading the
>inode table, or the inode or block bitmaps. It's quite wrong, and
>should be fixed. Fortunately, it's not that hard to fix. I'll try to
>get patches to deal with this post haste.

Part of me wants such things to panic the kernel. I.e. get my attention
_NOW_. This could be any number of problems and may in fact not be an
actually corrupted filesystem (it may have been misread or have been
corrupted beyond the disk) at which point, continuing could case damage
and any number of other unspeakable things to the machine (ok, so most
of them will be in userspace and not quite as serious.)

Make it an option.

--Ricky

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