Re: secure execution of drivers
When the date was Thursday 20 November 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Michael Iatrou:
> > When the date was Wednesday 19 November 2008, Dani d wrote:
> >> hello everybody.
> >> I recently had a problem with drivers of my pc. The driver of the
> >> wifi sometimes it hung and the last time it broke my entire reiserfs
> >> file system and badly I've been able to recover. I would like to know
> >> if there is any way to run the drivers on some sort of secure
> >> environment so that it fails or is compromised not affect the rest of
> >> the system
> >
> > No, there isn't (yet).
>
> However, there are less dynamic file systems for which recovery will
> be somewhat easier.
This is indeed the truth, but since data integrity cannot be assured under
such circumstances, I couldn't sleep better at night thinking "Well, my
ext3 undergone another corruption, but at least I don't have to rebuild
that awful B-tree" :>
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Michael Iatrou (cmyt)
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