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SubjectRe: Oops with ext3 journaling
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 08:44:46AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:

> > I reiterate, the ext3 code must protect the journal from user-level
> > process operation, or we are gonna have serious headaches in the user
> > support dept. :-(
> Maybe at least stick a nice big warning in the docs along the lines of
> "do not write to your journal file while mounted with journaling on, you
> big dummy!" :) Not that I'd do so deliberately of course, but it might
> make people a little more wary later on. The README does recommend
> setting the permissions to 400, but that doesn't protect from root of
> course.

Would chattr +i help? If so, it might be a workaround until there is a real
solution.


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