On 26 Oct 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > 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. afaik ntfs-readonly no longer has any memory corruption issues. indeed the bugzilla entries indicate corruption is no longer an issue. -Dan