Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:21:17 +0200 | From | "Molle Bestefich" <> | Subject | Re: ext3 corruption |
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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/
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