On Oct 26, 2004, Alexandre Strube <surak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The ntfs module used in other distributions is mainly read-only... how > can this corrupt a file system? All it takes is a bit of incorrect memory management in the kernel. As soon as you corrupt kernel data structures, all bets are off. Say, double-free of a pointer to an ntfs read-only buffer could corrupt whatever data structure that buffer was being reused for after the first free. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}